Recent reports

01 January 2010
Comments News and comment This summary of unchecked reports covers early November to early December 2009. Headlines During a very stormy period, it was birds at sea that caught the eye most, with the best being a Fregetta storm-petrel in the Severn estuary, a Pacific Diver nearby...
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Reviews

01 January 2010
Comments Reviews By Paul Mason and Jake Allsop Poyser, 2009 Hbk, 280pp, many photographs, vignettes and tables ISBN 978-0-7136-7683-9 Subbuteo code M20081 £45.00 BB Bookshop price £36.00 This is the latest in the long-running and gener- ally excellent series ...
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Letters

01 January 2010
Comments Letters In 2007, I was surprised to read (in Flood & Thomas 2007, p. 418) that I had seen a dark- rumped Wilson's Storm-petrel Oceanites oceanicus near South Georgia, when what I saw was a bird with markings resembling those of Leach's Storm-petrel Oceanodroma le...
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Recent reports

01 November 1989
Comments News and comment This summary covers the period 15th September to 12th October 1989 These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. Leach's Petrel Oceanodrotna leucorhoa Portrush (Co. Antrim), 156 on 6th October. Great White Egret Egretta alba Minsmere ...
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Monthly reports: June 1989

01 November 1989
Comments News and comment High pressure to the west maintained a cool unsettled flow of northerly air over Britain and Ireland during the first seven days. Much warmer southerly air arrived from the south after the centre of pressure moved to the Continent, with temperatures ex...
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