Notes

01 November 2004
Comments Notes In 1999, I kept watch on the single pair of Great Crested Grebes Podiceps cristatus which nested on Lacock Gravel-pits, Wiltshire. The grebes were present at the site from early February, with eggs incubated during March and three young hatched in early A...
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Product reports

01 February 1985
Comments Main paper Items included in this feature have been submitted by the manufacturers or their agents. The reviews are the personal opinions of the reviewers; they are not the result of technical tests, but are assessments made after use in appropriate conditions (e...
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Seventy-five years ago

01 February 1985
Comments Other 'A Bittern (Bolaurus stellaris) was put up by my son on the Crumbles, Eastbourne, on December 21st, 1909. Though he had his gun with him he wisely forebore to shoot the bird, which I hope is still at large. H. P. MOLINEUX.' {Brit. Birds 3: 308, Februar...
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PhotoSpot. 8. Grey Hypocolius

01 February 1985
Comments Main paper The Grey Hypocolius Hypocolius ampelinus is allied to waxwings (Bombycillidae), but recalls a shrike Lanius, and has a very restricted Middle-eastern distribution. It breeds in a narrow zone from northern Iraq, through southern Iran and into south...
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Notes

01 February 1985
Comments Notes Green-backed Heron in Humberside. On 27th November 1982, together with other observers, including T. Bell and P. A. Bentley, we were searching for a Great White Egret Egretta alba that had been reported in the Thorngumbald area on the north side of the...
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Mystery photographs

01 February 1985
Comments Main paper  It is late in the year and you are sitting alone in a hide overlooking an area of pools, reedbeds arid small bushes. Suddenly, as if by magic, a large bird materialises at the edge of a nearby reedbed. The combination of large size, thick, p...
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