Looking back

01 April 2004 Comments Other `Semi-palmated Sandpiper in Norfolk.­­ On July 19th, 1953, an unusual wader was observed on Arnold's Marsh, Cley, Norfolk, by P. R. Clarke, who pointed it out to P. D. Kirky, and R. A. Richardson. It was subsequently watched for some hours at a f...
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Looking back

01 April 2004 Comments Other `TURTLE-DOVE BREEDING IN W. MERIONETH. S INCE publishing my Vert. Fauna N. Wales, I have obtained evidence that –­ as I then foretold –­ the Turtle-Dove (Streptopelia t. turtur) is gradually extending its range westwards. Still, all records up to...
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Looking back

01 April 2004 Comments Other `GARGANEY IN SUSSEX IN WINTER. WHILE on the shore at Glyne Gap, between Bexhill and West St. Leonards, on February 3rd, 1929, a friend of mine, Mr. Barlow, found the remains of a small duck that had been badly mauled by Gulls, and the wing of a second....
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Monthly marathon

01 April 2004 Comments Other Monthly Marathon photo number 204 (Brit. Birds 97: plate 26, repeated here as plate 113) captures a scene all too often encountered, whether birding at home or abroad: a view from the rear of a streaky, brownish passerine perched on a fence before it v...
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Monthly marathon

01 May 2002 Comments Other Given that the closing date for the first three stages of the twelfth `Marathon' was extended to 30th April, the solution to the first two stages, photos 185 and 186, will appear in the June issue of British Birds.155. `Monthly Marathon'. Photo no. 188...
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Looking back

01 May 2002 Comments Other GREAT GREY SHRIKE IN KENT IN SPRING. ON April 6th, 1927, my son, W. H. Hale, and I saw a Great Grey Shrike (Lanius e. excubitor) at Hothfield. It is well known that as an autumn and winter visitor this bird occurs almost every year in Kent, bu...
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Looking back

01 May 2002 Comments Other `HOMING INSTINCT IN ROBINS. FOLLOWING my experiments in homing with Hedge-Sparrows [Prunella modularis] (Vol. XIX., p. 24), I have always hoped to investigate the same with Robins (Erithacus rubecula). `Unfortunately, I have never had a Robin which was...
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