Looking back

01 February 2002 Comments Other Seventy-five years ago:  ‘PROBABLE HAWK-OWL IN MIDDLESEX. ON December 27th, 1926, at West Molesey Reservoirs, Mr. R. W. Heenan and I saw what was, without any doubt, a Hawk-Owl (Surnia ulula subsp). It was perched in the ...
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Monthly marathon

01 April 1995 Comments Other Nearly everyone (91%) correctly identified the bird in plate 10 as Black-shouldered Kite Elanus caeruleus, the only other species named being Red-footed Falcon Falco vespertinus. An even higher proportion of entrants (97%) correctly identified the wade...
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Looking Back

01 April 1995 Comments Other Twenty-five years ago, in April 1970, the talking point was an unprecedented invasion of at least 40 Little Egrets Egretta garzetta, the first 12 all arriving during 17th-19th April; in contrast, there was none in autumn. In the same month, British Bir...
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