Monthly marathon

01 September 1996 Comments Other Plate 144. 'Monthly marathon'. Photo no. 123. Third stage in ninth 'Marathon'. Identify both of the species. Read the rules on page 24 of the January issue and the amendment on page 333 in the July issue, then send in your answer on a postcard to Month...
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Looking Back

01 September 1996 Comments Other One hundred years ago: 'NOTES ON BIRDS IN KENT, BY BOYD ALEXANDER . . . Families of Redbacked Shrikes [Lanius collurio] are abroad. Stout hedgerows, whose outgrowing branches serve as perches, or the sunny portions of a wooden fence, are at this time f...
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Monthly marathon

01 July 1996 Comments Other That rock-perching bird (plate 118) was named as Water Pipit Anthus spinoletta (68%), Rock Pipit A. petrosus (29%) and also Buff-bellied Pipit A. rubescens, Fieldfare Turdus pilaris, Snow Bunting Plectrophenax nivalis and Cinereous Bunting Emberiz...
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Looking Back

01 July 1996 Comments Other One hundred and fifty years ago: 'On the occurrence of the Australian Spine-tailed Swallow [Whitethroated Needletail Swift Hirundapus caudacutus] in England. It was shot about 9 p.m. on the 8th of this month [July 1846] by a farmer's son, named Peter C...
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Looking Back

01 July 1996 Comments Other NEIGHBOURHOOD, BY BOYD ALEXANDER. "Times are not as they were" is a saying that might well be applied to this district as regards the numerical distribution of species of birds now breeding there, as compared with formerly. Disturbing influences of one...
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