Monthly marathon

01 June 1999 Comments Other `Monthly marathon' Photo no. 154. Third stage in eleventh `Marathon'. Identify the species. Read the rules below, then send your answer on a postcard to Monthly Marathon, Fountains, Park Lane, Blunham, Bedford MK44 3NJ, to arrive by 15th July 1999.1. O...
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Looking back

01 June 1999 Comments Other `The following notes were made... in those extensive woods which once formed part of the Forest of Feckenham, Worcestershire... At first I heard nothing more than Thrushes, Blackbirds and Nightingales, except a Nightjar... A WoodWarbler was singing amo...
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Monthly marathon

01 March 1995 Comments Other With the closing date for January's entries (28th February) coming a week after this March issue will have been printed and five days after it will have been posted to subscribers, the identity of the bird on the overhead wire (plate 10) will be reveal...
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Looking Back

01 March 1995 Comments Other Twenty-five years ago, in March 1970, D. I. M. Wallace made a thorough analysis of the 'First ten years of the Rarities Committee' (Brit. Birds 63: 113-128). One aspect in particular will have changed between the 1950s/60s and today: back in those days...
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