Looking back

01 March 2001
Comments Other ON January 17th, 1926, under twenty-three degrees of frost, I drove seventy miles on the chance of seeing an "eagle," which, for the past three weeks, had been frequenting some woods in north Essex.  ...
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Monthly marathon

01 March 2001
Comments Other Another gull (Laridae), obviously! My commiserations to the unfortunate participants in this competition who do not immediately jump up and down with excitement over the prospect of yet another gull challenge, assuming, that is, that there are some lef...
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Monthly marathon

01 December 1995
Comments Other The seventh 'Marathon' was won by Peter Sunesen (Brit. Birds 88: 560), who joins the elite band of expert bird-identifiers who have won SUNBIRD holidays: Pekka J. Nikander (who chose to go to Thailand), Anthony McGeehan (Arctic Canada), Ralph Hobbs (Ke...
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Looking Back

01 December 1995
Comments Other 'Woodcock, Scobpax rusticola. The woodcock arrives here [Durham and Cleveland] about the 15th of October, but does not remain with us, proceeding to the larger woods further inland. The greater number of these birds come with a north-east wind during the ...
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