Seventy-five years ago

01 October 2006
Comments Other GREAT SPOTTED WOODPECKERS BORING IN TELEPHONE POLES. Im June, 1931, the Inspector of the Post Office Engineering Department at Yeovil, Somerset, informed me that he had to renew three telephone poles at Chilton Cantelo, near Yeovil, owing to their...
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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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