Looking back

01 January 2003
Comments Other ON THE DECREASE OF BLACKGAME IN SCOTLAND.­ Miss L. J. Rintoul and Miss E. V. Baxter have collected a valuable series of comparative observations, derived from a large number of correspondents and published records, on this subject... From the reports ...
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Monthly marathon

01 January 2003
Comments Other Bird identification, just like certain modern technologies, has developed immensely in the last decade, and keeping up with either can often be a real struggle. Thankfully, thoughts of having to use new `fieldcraft' techniques such as scanning or resiz...
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Seventy-Five Years Ago

01 April 1984
Comments Other 'DOWN Y WOODPECKER (DENDROCOPUS PUBESCENS) IN GLOUCESTERSHIRE. On January 14th, 1908, a friend who occasionally shoots birds for me brought me in a little Woodpecker that he had shot that day at Frampton Cotterel, near Bristol. It was climbing up the t...
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