Tits and Peanuts

01 August 1948
Comments Main paper DURING the hard weather in February, 1947, my wife and 1 found a small cache of peanuts, preserved in the house since 1939, when we had been in the habit of stringing these together and hanging them up for the tits. On February 12th, therefore, I hung up...
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Letter

01 October 1939
Comments Letters SIRS,--In connexion with t h e discussion of this subject (antea, pp. 248-50) it is perhaps worth mentioning t h a t in September, 1911, I watched quantities of Great Shearwaters in t h e Bay of Biscay on a voyage to Bordeaux on the 6th, and on the return...
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Reviews

01 October 1939
Comments Reviews South-Eastern Bird Report, 1938. Edited by Ralph Whitlock. (R, Whitlock, Pitton, Salisbury.) 3s, 6d. THIS Report is now published under the auspices of the South-Eastern Union of Scientific Societies and a committee of management under the chairmanship of...
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Notes

01 October 1939
Comments Notes FOR some years a pair of Grey Wagtails (Motacilla c. cinerea) have nested in and round a house in Ireland choosing as sites the window ledges of upstairs windows or the thick stems of a Virginian creeper, the nest being either built along a branch or in ...
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