Notes

01 September 1995 Comments Notes About 45 minutes before sunset on 16th August 1991, in Clumber Park, Nottinghamshire, a relatively tight flock of about 2,000 hirundines was feeding over open water at a height of between 25 m and 100 m when an adult Grey Heron Ardea cinerea approached...
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Short reviews

01 December 1988 Comments Reviews The Dragonflies of Europe. By R. R. Askew, (Harley Books, Great Horkesley, 1988. 291 pages. £49.95.) Every species meticulously illustrated in colour with the text covering description of the adult, biology (behaviour, jizz, habitat, etc.), flight per...
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Notes

01 December 1988 Comments Notes Fulmar attempting to take young Raven from nest. On 29th April 1985, while walking along the cliffs at Yesnaby, Mainland, Orkney, I approached a traditional nest site of a Raven Corvus corax. From about 150 m, I looked through binoculars at the nest, w...
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