Notes

01 September 1968
Comments Notes Semipalmated Sandpiper in Kent.--On ioth September 1967 J.G.H. found a Semipalmated Sandpiper Calidris pusilla on the WAGBIWildfowl Trust Experimental Gravel Pit Reserve at Sevenoaks, Kent. Identification was made easier because of his previous experience...
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Notes

01 January 1967
Comments Notes Heron apparently fishing i n deep water.--The observations below were made by us independently on two separate days, but, because the behaviour was so similar on each occasion as to suggest that it might be the not infrequent habit of one individual, the ...
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Notes

01 April 1962
Comments Notes Little Grebes attacking Moorhens.--With regard to the recent note by J. B. and S, Bottomley on Little Grebes {Podiceps ruficollis) attacking Coots (Fulica atra) and domestic ducks {Anas sp.) {Brit. Birds, 54: 427), it seems worth reporting that I saw seve...
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Notes

01 April 1959
Comments Notes Miss Jennifer Bak and I were on board' the Marine Biological Association's ship " S a r s i a " off Plymouth, Devon, near the Eddystone lighthouse, and saw a large migratory movement of b i r d s : in 4J hours' observation we counted some 1,600, mostly sm...
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Notes

01 August 1958
Comments Notes Eider's method of eating crabs.--On 16th December 1957 and subsequent days I had several first-winter Eiders (Somateria mollissima) under observation from the pier at Southend-on-Sea, Essex. They were seen diving from a range of a few yards and on returni...
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Collared Doves in Norfolk

01 June 1957
Comments Main paper (Plates I and 41-42) O N 3RD JULY 1956, M . J . S . was attracted by the unfamiliar trisyllabic cooing- of two doves, one of which was seen, in the trees of a large walled garden near the sea in north Norfolk. Later, on consulting published descriptions a...
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