Notes

01 February 1981
Comments Notes Peregrine feeding Herring Gull chick to young On 24th May 1978, on the north Cornish coast, I was watching the eyrie of a pair of Peregrines Falco peregrinus. The falcon was brooding a solitary chick about 18 days old and the tiercel was perche...
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Letters

01 August 1977
Comments Letters Melanistic Grey Heron Bryan L. Sage (in litt.) has confirmed that, when making his recent comment (Brit. Birds 70: 76), he had overlooked my record of a melanistic Grey Heron Ardea cinerea at Little Tring Reservoir, Tring, Hertfordshire, on 29th S...
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Notes

01 August 1977
Comments Notes Kestrel hiding food At dusk on 6th April 1976, at Ynys-hir, Dyfed, J. Parry and I saw a male Kestrel Falco tinnunculus fly on to a bank below us about 20 m away. The falcon was carrying prey in one foot, which we later found to be a Wheatear Oe...
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