Notes

01 April 1984
Comments Notes Feeding behaviour of Storm Petrels. On a number of occasions during the period 26th July to 8th August 1980, we observed Storm Petrels Hydrobates pelagicus feeding 50-200 m off the point of Blananarragaun, Cape Clear Island, Co. Cork; on most days ther...
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Notes

01 August 1977
Comments Notes Kestrel hiding food At dusk on 6th April 1976, at Ynys-hir, Dyfed, J. Parry and I saw a male Kestrel Falco tinnunculus fly on to a bank below us about 20 m away. The falcon was carrying prey in one foot, which we later found to be a Wheatear Oe...
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Notes

01 December 1975
Comments Notes Partridge calling from elevated perch On the evening of 3rd March 1961, near Gorsham, Wiltshire, I saw a Partridge Perdix perdix calling from the apex of some stables approximately five metres from the ground. The bird continued to utter the ty...
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Notes

01 June 1973
Comments Notes Aggression by female Buzzard at nest I was intrigued by the recent note from G. A. Williams and D. Coan on aggression by a female Buzzard Buteo buteo {Brit. Birds, 66: 31-32). O n 26th April 1944, in a large stand of mature Scots pines on a Lak...
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01 January 1969
Comments Notes Mute Swans sunbathing On 22nd August 1968, on the Lancashire side of Windermere, I saw a family of five Mute Swans Cygnus olor on a gravel bank. They were quite tame and did not move off when I sat down ten yards away. The sun then came out and they start...
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Ospreys in action

01 June 1968
Comments Main paper The Osprey Pandion haliaetus was featured in our series of 'less familiar birds' in 1956 (Brit Birds, 49: 489-492, plates 65-72); the photographs then, by M, D. England, showed the bird perched, the pair at the nest, the nest site, the habitat and other a...
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Notes

01 April 1968
Comments Notes Food of Osprey in Kent.--Between 14th September and 18 th October 1967 I spent about 30 hours watching an Osprey Pandion haliaetus which stayed at a reservoir near Folkestone, Kent, for those five weeks. At first it caught small Perch Percafluviatilis ...
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