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 April 2002
Comments Other As reported in the March issue (Brit. Birds 95: 150-151), the longrunning eleventh `Marathon' was eventually won by Peter Sunesen, and a new one has now started. In order to give as many new competitors as possible a chance to enter the twelfth `Marath...
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Looking back

01 April 2002
Comments Other Seventy-five years ago:  ‘GOOSANDERS IN SHROPSHIRE. ON Saturday, February 12th, 1927, I had brought to me for identifi- cation an adult male Goosander (Mergus merganser) which had been shot, out of a pair, on the Severn b...
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Looking back

01 April 2002
Comments Other [From Ornithological Report From Norfolk for 1926, by B. B. Riviere] `The event of most outstanding interest to Norfolk ornithology in the year 1926, and one which seems likely to have an important bearing upon its future, was undoubtedly the purchase ...
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