August reports

01 November 1974
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records August was dominated by weather from the Atlantic, a series of depressions crossing Britain and producing generally cool and unsettled conditions with temperatures below average and rainfal...
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News and comment

01 November 1974
Comments News and comment Rookery census The last national survey of the British Rook population was undertaken by the British Trust for Ornithology in 1945; much data was gathered (and is still on file), though rather little was published. Various local surveys carried...
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Letters

01 November 1974
Comments Letters Oiled seabirds successfully cleaning their plumage I was interested to read the note by T. R. Birkhead, Clare Lloyd and P. Corkhill concerning the successful cleaning of oiled plumage by seabirds (Brit. Birds, 66: 535-537). Instances of this be...
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Reviews

01 November 1974
Comments Reviews The Cairngorms. Their Natural History and Scenery. By Desmond Nethersole-Thompson and Adam Watson. Collins, London, 1974. 286 pages; 7 colour and 36 black-and-white photographs; 17 maps and text-figures. £3.50.  Everything about the Cairn...
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Notes

01 November 1974
Comments Notes Kestrel taking prey from Short-eared Owl On 20th January 1974, Mrs M. Perkins and I watched a Short-eared Owl Asio flammeus hunting in the usual manner over rough grass on Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire. It dropped into the grass, rose with a small...
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Reviews

01 November 1947
Comments Reviews British Game. By Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald. (The New Naturalist series, Collins, London, 1946). Price 16s. This is the first of the New Naturalist series to be concerned primarily with birds. I t is not exclusively so concerned because mammals are also inclu...
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Notes

01 November 1947
Comments Notes ON a fine morning in April, 1946, a number of Blackbirds (Turdus m. merula), Song-Thrushes (Turdus e. ericetorum) and Starlings (Siurnus v. vulgaris) were watched while feeding on a large lawn of King's College, Cambridge. The Starlings spent most of the...
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