All Notes submitted to British Birds are subject to independent review, either by the Notes Panel or by the BB Editorial Board.Those considered appropriate for BB will be published either here or on our website (www.britishbirds.co.uk) subject to the availability of space.In early March 2003, I made the following observation at the S'Albufera Parc Natural, in Mallorca. I was photographing a Little Grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis and followed the bird through the camera lens as it disappeared into some reed. There followed some disturbance in the reeds, as though some sort of struggle was Robin Fisher 28 Dinerth Road, Colwyn Bay, Conwy LL28 4YN taking place. Eventually, the grebe reappeared and, to my amazement, I could see the hind legs and tail of a small mammal being swallowed head first. I can find no mention of mammals included in the diet of this or any other species of grebe, and my observation appears to me to be unique.During a visit to south-central Tunisia in April 2004, I was interested to note an intriguing, persistent association between Cream-coloured Coursers Cursorius cursor and the tarmacked roads passing through their desert and steppe habitats. All of the 13 birds seen on 25th-26th April were found on the road or close to the roadside. By contrast, on numerous occasions, I stopped and scanned appropriate habitats away from the road, but never found them. The most compelling evidence for some underlying ecological attachment to roads came on 26th April, in an area of alkaline steppe around