Looking Back

01 August 1997 Comments Other One hundred years ago: 'Apparent Summer Appearance of the Shore Lark in Devonshire.--On the 14th inst. [August 1897], at about 4 p.m., I saw near Paignton, Devon, a bird which I think could be no other than Otocoris alpestris, the Shore Lark, an adult ...
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Monthly Marathon

01 August 1997 Comments Other The swimming gull Larus (plate 49) was named by competitors as Audouin's L. audouinii (33%), Herring L. argentatus (30%), Lesser Black-backed L. fuscus (25%), Yellow-legged L. cachinnans (6%), Common L. canus (4%) and Great Black-backed L. marinus (2%)...
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Seventy-five years ago

01 November 1990 Comments Other 'ABUNDANCE OF LAND-RAILS IN EAST SUSSEX. NOT for many years past have there been so many Land-Rails (Crex crex) during the autumn migration as in 1915. From Pett eastwards there must have been hundreds wherever there was sufficient cover to hide these ...
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