Monthly Marathon

01 February 1996
Comments Other With Christmas and New Year postal delays still affecting incoming mail from overseas, even in mid January, we are extending the deadline for receipt of entries for the fourth stage of the current Marathon (December's plate 221). So far, seven species ...
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Looking Back

01 February 1996
Comments Other Fifty years ago, a Note reported on: 'COMMON GULLS NESTING ON BIRCH TREES. In June, 1945,  during a period of leave spent on Upper Deeside (Aberdeenshire), I noted on several occasions Common Gulls (Larus c. canus), perching on trees near the...
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Fifty years ago

01 February 1981
Comments Other 'At three o'clock the following morning as I dozed with the lobster fishermen in their small bothy I was awakened by the fluttering of wings on my arm and head and found a StormPetrel, apparently dazzled by the candle, moving about my person.' SETON GO...
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