Recent Reports and News

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...
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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...
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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...
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Letters

01 December 1955
Comments Letters Further remarks on discoloration in House Sparrows Sirs,--The observations of C. J. O. Harrison (Brit. Birds, 56: 296-297) on 'industrial' discoloration in House Sparrows (Passer domesticus) and other birds prompt us to record information on an allied pro...
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Reviews

01 December 1955
Comments Reviews A Mosaic of Islands. By Kenneth Williamson and J. Morton Boyd. Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh and London, 1963. 183 pages index; 22 black-and-white photographs; text-drawings and m - p s . 21s. The more remote islands around our coast have always held a great f...
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Notes

01 December 1955
Comments Notes Peregrines rearing young Kestrels.--On n t h April 1963 W. N. Charles and I flushed a Peregrine {Fako peregrinus) from its eyrie in an old Raven (Corvus corax) nest in the Dumfriesshire hills. There were four eggs, one of which we took (under licence) for...
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