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01 December 1966 Comments Notes Heron eating House Sparrows.--Seton Gordon's recent note and the accompanying editorial comment on Herons Ardeatinereaeating birds {Brit. Birds, 59: 37) prompt me to record similar feeding behaviour by a captive Heron which came into my possession as a ju...

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01 January 1966 Comments Notes Heron swallowing female Blackbird.--In early September 1965 a late brood of three young Herons Ardea cinerea seemingly feil from their nest in the grounds of Viewfield House, near Portree, Isle of Skye, Inverness-shire. They appeared on the lawn where Col...

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01 January 1964 Comments Notes Fulmar incubating eggs of Herring Gull with its own.--On 27th May 1963 I was walking along a cliff top four miles south of Ballantrae, Ayrshire, when I surprised a Fulmar Fulmarus glacialis off its nest. As it flew, a brown egg rolled out and smashed on t...

Letters

01 May 1962 Comments Letters Ringed birds in snow Sirs,--During the snowy period of early January 1962, in my garden sanctuary near Welwyn, Hertfordshire, I saw two ringed birds, a Blue Tit (Pants caerukus) and a Long-tailed Tit (Aegithalos caudatus), with their rings thickly coated ...

Survey of House Martin colonies in East Lancashire

01 May 1959 Comments Main paper IN THE SUMMER of 1958, the East Lancashire Ornithologists' Club carried out a local survey of the nesting-sites of the House Martin (Delichon urbica), with a view to ascertaining- their distribution and the factors controlling it. The area chosen for stud...

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01 April 1958 Comments Notes Fish-hook in Heron's pellet.--In March 1956 Tom Schutte brought me the pellet of a Heron (Ardea cinerea) that he had found on the 4th of that month, by the River Beane at Waterford, Hertfordshire. It was composed almost entirely of fur (? W a t e r Vole, ...

The index of Heron population, 1952

01 March 1953 Comments Main paper (Edward Grey Institute, Oxford). THE number of heronries on which reports for 1952 were received at the Edward Grey Institute was 197, or 7 more than in the previous year. Of these 151 were in England, 8 in Wales, 14 in Scotland and 24 in Ireland. The Rev...

The index of Heron population, 1951

01 February 1952 Comments Main paper T H E number of heronries on which reports for 1951 were received at the Edward Grey Institute was 190 or 17 fewer than in the previous year. Of these 140 were in England, 11 in Wales, 15 in Scotland and 24 in Ireland. The Rev. P . G. Kennedy has again su...

The Index of Heron population, 1950

01 April 1951 Comments Main paper (Edward Grey Institute, Department of Zoological Field Studies, Oxford). T H E number of heronries on which reports for 1950 were received at the Edward Grey Institute was 207, or 45 more than in the previous year. Of these 150 were in England, 17 each in...