Looking back

01 March 2001
Comments Other ON January 17th, 1926, under twenty-three degrees of frost, I drove seventy miles on the chance of seeing an "eagle," which, for the past three weeks, had been frequenting some woods in north Essex.  ...
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Monthly marathon

01 March 2001
Comments Other Another gull (Laridae), obviously! My commiserations to the unfortunate participants in this competition who do not immediately jump up and down with excitement over the prospect of yet another gull challenge, assuming, that is, that there are some lef...
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Seventy-five years ago

01 May 1988
Comments Other 'The inclusion of Barrow's Goldeneye as a British species has recently been shown to be entirely unwarranted and this is mentioned by Mr. Millais in a footnote added while his work was "in the press." We must take exception, too, to the inclusion of Ba...
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