Notes

01 March 1957
Comments Notes Ortolan Bunting in Middlesex. -- On the morning of 2nd September 1956, I was Walking along the northern bank of the River Brent where it flows into the Brent Reservoir, Middlesex, noting the many migrants which had arrived in the comparative calm after a ...
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Notes

01 May 1939
Comments Notes IN May, 1937, I watched a hen Blackbird (Turdus m. merula) at the weir at Cropston Reservoir, Leicestershire, catching what I took to be minnows, but they may have been sticklebacks. The fish had been stranded in small shallow pools and were swimming abo...
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Letters

01 April 1939
Comments Letters SIRS,--In his article on the Migration of the Gannet, Dr. Landsborough-Thomson says (antea, p. 288) : " There are many more mid-winter records of first year birds from African than from European waters . . . the figures suggest . . . t h a t those [young ...
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