Monthly marathon

01 February 2004 Comments Other Well, it makes a change from a pipit Anthus or a gull Larus I hear you cry, and it will be fairly obvious to most readers of British Birds that photo number 202 (Brit. Birds 96: plate 329, repeated here as plate 52) shows one of the blackand-white flyc...
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Monthly Marathon

01 February 1996 Comments Other With Christmas and New Year postal delays still affecting incoming mail from overseas, even in mid January, we are extending the deadline for receipt of entries for the fourth stage of the current Marathon (December's plate 221). So far, seven species ...
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Looking Back

01 February 1996 Comments Other Fifty years ago, a Note reported on: 'COMMON GULLS NESTING ON BIRCH TREES. In June, 1945,  during a period of leave spent on Upper Deeside (Aberdeenshire), I noted on several occasions Common Gulls (Larus c. canus), perching on trees near the...
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