Looking back

01 June 2003 Comments Other As in previous years, I send a number of observations made between October, 1927, and April, 1928, at the most westerly of the large Staffordshire reservoirs, and include a few made at Gailey Pool. `There is not a great deal new to report. Ducks have, ...
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Looking back

01 June 2003 Comments Other `Black-headed Wagtail in East Lothian.--On July 2nd, 1952, at Aberlady Bay, East Lothian, we came across what proved to be a Black-headed Wagtail (Motacilla flava feldegg). The bird was watched for nearly ten minutes on an area of grassy salti...
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Monthly marathon

01 March 2000 Comments Other January's bird (plate 32, repeated here as plate 90) was a brown, streaky thing and, just to make it more difficult (at least for birders used to field identification), it was in the hand. We can, however, quickly narrow down the hunt: the only West Pa...
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Looking back

01 March 2000 Comments Other The rarities for the year [1899] have not been many, and one cannot but be impressed with the growing scarcity of the Hobby [Falco subbuteo], Kestrel [F. tinnunculus], Magpie [Pica pica], Quail [Coturnix coturnix], Woodcock [Scolopax rusticola], Ruff [...
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