Letters

01 December 1974
Comments Letters Eye colour of the Hen Harrier D. I. M. Wallace's remarks (Brit. Birds, 65:358-359) on the eye colour of an immature of the American subspecies of the Hen Harrier Circus cyaneus hudsonius at Cley, Norfolk (see Brit. Birds, 64: 537-542), were confusing a...
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Notes

01 October 1971
Comments Notes Moorhen killing Jackdaw In view of A. Blackett's note (Brit. Birds, 63: 384), the following incident may be of interest. On 28th June 1964, at Corsham Lake, Wiltshire, I was watching a pair of Moorhens Gailitmla chbropus with five small chicks feeding by ...
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Notes

01 January 1964
Comments Notes Fulmar incubating eggs of Herring Gull with its own.--On 27th May 1963 I was walking along a cliff top four miles south of Ballantrae, Ayrshire, when I surprised a Fulmar Fulmarus glacialis off its nest. As it flew, a brown egg rolled out and smashed on t...
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