Notes

01 December 1984
Comments Notes Grey Heron parents attending grounded nestlings. In my monograph on the Grey Heron Ardea cinerea (1954, The Heron), I stated of young blown from the treetops that 'If in crashing the bird breaks a leg or wing it will not survive long, but if uninjured ...
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Notes

01 August 1972
Comments Notes Little Gull dip-feeding over upland fields On 22nd January 1972, at Barley-in-Pendle, Lancashire, I was fortunate to observe a firstwinter Little Gull Larus minutus following a flock of 24 Black-headed Gulls L. ridibundus over the lower slopes of Pendle H...
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