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Monthly marathon

01 January 2015 Comments Other t would be unfair to penalise those competitors whose postcards have been delayed by the British postal strike, or those who were unable to send their entries at all because of blocked postboxes. We are, therefore, extending the deadline from 15th Septemb...

Characters and taxonomic position of Basra Reed Warbler

01 January 2015 Comments Main paper n E u r o p e , the Great Reed W a r b l e r Acrocephalus arundinaceus ranges widely a n d breeds south to the M e d i t e r r a n e a n , extending also to northwest Africa. In Asia, it breeds t h r o u g h the USSR east to about85 C E; farther south, it...

Garden birds: will they stay or will they go?

30 September 2014 Comments News and comment Gardens were unusually empty of birds last winter, but the warm spring and summer meant that bird numbers picked up rapidly, according to results from the BTO Garden BirdWatch. Will numbers remain high into the autumn, or will our garden birds leave us, a...

The Birds of Derbyshire

30 September 2014 Comments Reviews ...

Drumming Goldfinch

26 September 2014 Comments Notes In late May 2014, in my garden on Scilly, I was watching a Goldfinch Carduelis carduelis on a niger feeder that I had constructed from a plastic bottle. To my great surprise I then heard what seemed to be a Great Spotted Woodpecker drumming - Gre...