Notes

01 March 1970
Comments Notes Somersaulting behaviour of Canada Geese On ist February 1970 we were members of a party of more than 20 people who witnessed an extraordinary performance by about 200 Canada Geese Branta canadensis which we had watched coming down on Ellesmere, Shropshire...
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Letters

01 August 1963
Comments Letters SIRS,--Is it generally known t h a t t h e Green Woodpecker eats fruit ? I watched one on October 23rd making a hearty meal off an apple a few yards from m y window, and since then many large apples picked u p plainly show t h e marks of this bird's power...
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Reviews

01 August 1963
Comments Reviews Report on the Immigration of Summer-residents in the Spring of 1912 ; also Notes on the Migratory Movements and Records received from Lighthouses and Light-vessels during the Autumn of 1911. By the Committee appointed by the British Ornithologists' Club (...
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Notes

01 August 1963
Comments Notes I WAS at Dungeness from October 20th to 23rd, 1913, and a great deal of migration was proceeding at the time, chiefly of flocks of finches and other birds flying south in the early morning. Between 12 noon and 1 p.m. on the 20th I saw a party of thirteen...
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Recovery of Marked Birds.

01 August 1963
Comments Main paper STABLINGS (Stumus v. vulgaris).--U513, 41526, 41539, 46201, 46284, 46310, 46314, 46363, 46375, immature, marked b y Mr. W. E . Suggitt, at Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, during J u l y and August, 1913. Recovered during November and December, 1913, from near ...
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