Monthly marathon

01 January 2004 Comments Other A novice birdwatcher looking at Monthly Marathon photo number 201 (Brit. Birds 96: plate 245, repeated here as plate 25) might wonder if the bird depicted in the photograph is a wader, with the stripes on the mantle possibly suggesting a species of sni...
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Looking back

01 January 2004 Comments Other `An unrecorded occurrence of a probable Redflanked Bluetail in Lincolnshire.­­The extract quoted below is from page 82 of the typescript of an as yet unpublished book by the late G. H. Caton Haigh entitled "Birds of a Lincolnshire Parish being A List...
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Seventy-five years ago

01 January 1991 Comments Other 'Unlike most species of duck, Sheld-drakes are not clumsy on land. They assembled on their leking-ground about 11 a.m. and 3 to 4 p.m. Some bathed and then sat apart preening themselves. Others began to play at once . . . When close together, the wings...
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Monthly marathon

01 January 1991 Comments Other Yes, we admit it, plate 237 in the October 1990 issue was an absolute stinker. It was named by entrants as: (43%) Red-necked Grebe Podiceps grisegena Red-breasted Merganser Mergus serrator (19%) Black-necked Grebe P. nigricollis (12%) (10%) Shag Phalac...
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