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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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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...

Little Gulls nesting on the Ouse Washes

01 August 1977 Comments Main paper The first confirmed nesting in Britain of this attractive gull unfortunately ended in disaster. Up to five Little Gulls Larus minutus had been recorded on the Ouse Washes, Cambridgeshire/Norfolk, in autumn in three of the seven year...

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01 March 1968 Comments Notes Hobbies persistently preying on Starling roost.--During the autumns of 1964-66 we often saw Hobbies Falco subbuteo at a roost of 100-120,000 Starlings Stttrnus vulgaris in five acres of woodland in Wiltshire. In 1964 two were seen on five occasions betwee...

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Little Gulls nesting on the Ouse Washes

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