Seventy-five years ago

01 August 2006 Comments Other FULMARS IN PEMBROKESHIRE. O N May 6th, 1930, Mr. C. Oldham and I saw a Fulmar (Fulmarus g. glacialis) flying past Strumble Head. This, I believe, was the first summer record of this species in Pembrokeshire or indeed in South Wales (Brit. Birds 24: 196...
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Monthly Marathon

01 June 1997 Comments Other April's warbler (plate 33) was photographed in an exotic location (in Portugal, by Dr Kevin Carlson, in June 1990) and a few competitors gambled on Spectacled Sylvia conspicillata, Subalpine S. cantillans, Desert S. nana or Barred S. nisoria, but, by a...
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Looking Back

01 June 1997 Comments Other Twenty-five years ago, in June/July 1972: '. . . after 10th June, a total of probably several hundred [Common Crossbills Loxia curvirostra] being reported in many parts of Britain from Shetland to Lundy [Devon] by the end of the month . . . The largest...
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