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01 July 1960 Comments News and comment The items here are largely unchecked reports, and must not be regarded as authenticated records. They are selected, on the present writers' judgement alone, from sources generally found to be reliable. Observers' names are usually omitted for reasons of s...

Notes

01 July 1960 Comments Notes Olivaceous Warbler i n Co. Donegal.--At about 6 p.m. on 29th September 1959 I found a strange warbler among the small walled enclosures of the lighthouse grounds at the western end of Tory Island, Co. Donegal. The light was very poor and fading, so that b...

The behaviour of a pair of House Sparrows while rearing young

01 July 1960 Comments Main paper 1959 OBSERVATIONS were made on the behaviour of a pair of House Sparrows (Passer domesticus) rearing their second brood of young in an observation nest-box in the suburban district of Pinner, Middlesex. Fixed near the eaves of a house and eighteen feet ab...

M. S. Wood's garden and bird-table photography

01 July 1960 Comments Main paper graphs of birds in aggressive attitudes shown in this issue, had been recognised as a first-class bird photographer of the conventional type for many years before circumstances forced him to less conventional methods. His family was well known in Lancashi...

Bird of prey numbers on a Hampshire game-preserve during 1952-1959

01 July 1960 Comments Main paper hawks I saw during visits to an estate of approximately 4,000 acres in west Hampshire. T h e species involved were Buzzard (Buteo buteo), Sparrowhawk and Goshawk (Actipiter nisus and gentilis), Marsh, Hen and Montagu's Harriers {Circus aeruginosus, cyaneu...

Kestrel pellets at a winter roost

01 July 1960 Comments Main paper D U R I N G T H E W I N T E R of 1958-59 I collected 113 pellets of Kestrels (Falco tinnunculus) beneath roosts in a disused quarry near the Dale estuary, Pembrokeshire. The quarry is on a steep bracken-covered hillside surrounded by farmland and the salt...

Letters

01 April 1945 Comments Letters SIRS,'--With reference t o Mr. Howard Bentham's record of a pair of SongThrushes (Turdus e. ericetorum) rearing two broods in t h e same nest (antea, p. 157), it may be of interest t o report t h a t , in 1944, in my garden in Mawganin-Pydar, I obtained m...

Reviews

01 April 1945 Comments Reviews Report on the Birds of Nottinghamshire, 1943. Compiled for the Nottingham Natural Science Field Club and the Trent Valley Bird Watchers by J. Staton. W E are very glad t o welcome an independent report on Nottinghamshire which bears testimony to t h e go...

Notes

01 April 1945 Comments Notes SINCE I find no reference to the courtship-feeding of the female Linnet (Carduelis c. cannabina) by the male in the Handbook of British Birds, perhaps the following m a y be of interest. On April 24th, 1944, a number of Linnets were feeding on weed seeds...

Feeding of Blue Tit Nestlings

01 April 1945 Comments Main paper T H E occupation last year (1944) of a special nesting box by a pair of Blue Tits {Varus ccsruleus obscurus) enabled me to observe at very close quarters the feeding of the nestlings. This I was anxious to do in order to find, if possible, what method or ...

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Recent Reports and News

Notes

The behaviour of a pair of House Sparrows while rearing young

M. S. Wood's garden and bird-table photography

Bird of prey numbers on a Hampshire game-preserve during 1952-1959

Kestrel pellets at a winter roost

Letters

Reviews

Notes

Feeding of Blue Tit Nestlings

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