Looking back

01 September 2004 Comments Other `Hobby in Essex in winter.­­A Hobby (Falco subbuteo), thought to be a female, was seen on several occasions between November 6th, 1953, and January 2nd, 1954, by Mr. B. Winchester at the Layer Breton end of Abberton Reservoir, Essex. On December 21s...
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Fifty years ago

01 July 1980 Comments Other 'NIGHT SOARING OF SWIFTS. Still there remains the question--do the birds come down and roost in the open? The only way to prove conclusively that they do not is to go up in an aeroplane and find them soaring in their aerial "park"--to cruise round the ...
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