Looking back

01 June 2003 Comments Other As in previous years, I send a number of observations made between October, 1927, and April, 1928, at the most westerly of the large Staffordshire reservoirs, and include a few made at Gailey Pool. `There is not a great deal new to report. Ducks have, ...
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Looking back

01 June 2003 Comments Other `Black-headed Wagtail in East Lothian.--On July 2nd, 1952, at Aberlady Bay, East Lothian, we came across what proved to be a Black-headed Wagtail (Motacilla flava feldegg). The bird was watched for nearly ten minutes on an area of grassy salti...
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Seventy-five years ago

01 July 1991 Comments Other NEARLY every recent book on British birds mentions Wiltshire as one of the counties in which the Common Curlew (Numenius arquata) breeds, but I am of opinion that this is one of those errors which get copied from one work to another. I know no part of ...
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Monthly marathon

01 July 1991 Comments Other The bird flying towards us (plate 110)--not a view we often get--was named as 32 different species: Osprey Pandion haliaetus (32%) Houbara Bustard Chlamydotis undulata (10%) Collared Pratincole Glareola pratincola (8%) Grey Heron Ardea cinerea (7%) Whi...
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