Monthly marathon

01 March 2005
Comments Other When asked by another SUNBIRD leader if I would prepare his next Monthly Marathon solution, owing to his busy tour schedule, my first reaction was `not a problem'. My second reaction, on seeing the photograph, was `me and my big mouth!' The bird in Mon...
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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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