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01 May 1997 Comments Notes At 08.21 GMT on 13th October 1989, in the Valle del Palmar (Buenavista), northwestern Tenerife, Canary Islands, I saw a male Eurasian Sparrowhawk Accipiter nisus and a female Common Kestrel Falco tinnunculus perched less than 40 cm apart on two adjacen...
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01 July 1996 Comments Notes At about 16.00 GMT on 16th February 1992, near West Bagborough, Taunton, Somerset, I saw a Song Thrush Turdus philomelos digging with its bill into a hedge-bank in a field; the thrush pulled out several root fragments of Lords-and-Ladies Arum maculatum...
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01 October 1994 Comments Notes Little Ringed Plover eating tadpole. On 14th May 1989, at a disused, partly infilled gravel-pit in Leicestershire which had been prone to extensive winter flooding, the area was swarming with tadpoles of the common frog Rana temporaria. A Little Ringed...
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01 September 1994 Comments Notes Avocets feeding in compact spinning group. In early February 1990, at Big Lake in the Djoudj National Park for Birds, Senegal, large numbers of Avocets Recurvirostra avosetta were feeding normally in water some 20 cm deep. Suddenly, 150-200 of them dre...
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01 June 1994 Comments Notes Hazel Grouse in the Pyrenees. Since the French breeding bird atlas (Yeatman 1976), the Hazel Grouse Bonasa bonasia has been considered nonexistent in the Pyrenees (Elosegui 1985; CROAP 1987). It is true, however, that its secretive nature and habi...
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01 June 1993 Comments Notes Turnstones feeding at Kittiwake nests. On 27th April 1991, while photographing a colony of Kittiwakes Rissa tridactyla on two adjacent cliffs at Newquay, Cornwall, I was surprised to see two Turnstones Arenaria interpres flitting from le...
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01 February 1993 Comments Notes Black-headed Gulls foraging behind motor vehicle. On 18th October 1989, while returning from Hilbre Island across the sands to West Kirby, on the Wirral, Cheshire, I noticed a Black-headed Gull Larus ridibundus following our Land Rover, Keeping between...
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01 August 1992 Comments Notes 'Water-boiling' display by Whooper and Bewick's Swans. From the mid 1980s, at Welney, Norfolk, we have noticed a regularly occurring display by Whooper Cygnus cygnus and Bewick's Swans C. columbianus feeding in high densities on waste potatoes tipped o...
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01 March 1992 Comments Notes Roosting Hen Harrier killed by fox. On the morning of 14th December 1985, while collecting pellets at a communal roost site of Hen Harriers Circus cyaneus on Wicken Fen, Cambridgeshire, I discovered a quantity of grey and white harrier f...
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01 November 1991 Comments Notes Herons alighting on sea. On 31st August 1985, from the Zuluf offshore oilfield in the Persian Gulf, N. J. S. Drummond and I observed a migrating flight of seven Purple Herons Ardea purpurea flying very low over the sea. One of them suddenly a...
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