Notes

01 August 1990 Comments Notes Oystercatchers incubating on closely adjacent nests. In early spring 1987, in a quiet corner of Blackpool Airport, Lancashire, soil, sand and chippings were dumped and then levelled. Later, the area became partly covered by vegetation and up to five Oy...
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Mystery photographs

01 August 1990 Comments Main paper Perched conspicuously on a prominent vantage point, this mystery bird shows a fairly substantial bill, relatively long tail and black mask, a combination which quickly shows it to be one of the shrikes Lanius. The blackness of the wings and '...
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Seventy-five years ago

01 August 1990 Comments Other 'LAND-RAILS IN STAFFORDSHIRE. I am pleased to report that the Land-Rail (Crex crex) turned up this year in quite average numbers in the district of Cheadle, Staffordshire . . . This very dry season is bringing on a very early hay harvest, and this...
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Seasonal reports: winter 1989/90

01 August 1990 Comments Main paper The weather during this winter period was milder and wetter than average everywhere, with temperatures 2.5ºC above normal in much of southern and eastern England Unsettled westerly weather in early November changed to warm anticyclonic southeasterlies...
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Winter summary

01 October 1976 Comments News and comment There were few reports of gatherings of divers. The only ones of any real interest were as follows: 15 Great Northern Gavia immer at Golspie (Highland) in mid-January; 24 Black-throated G. arctica near Dodman Point (Cornwall) on 20th March; and 35 Red-...
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News and Comment

01 October 1976 Comments News and comment British ornithologists held by guerrillas Since about 9th May, Stephanie Tyler, well known for her studies of Grey Wagtails (e.g. Bird Study, 19: 69-80), together with her husband Lindsay and their two children, Robert (8) and Sarah (5), have b...
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Reviews

01 October 1976 Comments Reviews British Birds of Prey. By Leslie Brown. Collins 'New Naturalist', London, 1976. 400 pages; 34 m a p s ; 11 figures; 23 tables; eight pages of appendix tables; 40 black-and-white photographs. £6.00. Aficionado and professional alike have waited...
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Notes

01 October 1976 Comments Notes Breeding success of Red-throated Divers on Hascosay The note by D. P. Cyrus on the breeding success of Red-throated Divers Gavia stellata on Fetlar, Shetland, in 1971 {Brit. Birds, 68: 75-76) prompts me to record the following. B. Hawkes and I ...
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