Notes

01 August 1985 Comments Notes Pink-footed Geese feeding on school playing-fields. During the exceptionally severe winter of 1981/82, unprecedented numbers of Pink-footed Geese Anser brachyrhynchus were present on the southwest Lancashire and north Merseyside feeding grounds, notabl...
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Notes

01 January 1981 Comments Notes Little Egrets with green legs and feet On 9th August 1980, at Porto Lago, Greece, J . I. Blincow and I noticed two Little Egrets Egretta garzetta exhibiting unusual coloration of'legs and feet. Resting upon a concrete groyne and in co...
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Letters

01 January 1966 Comments Letters Birds trapped by sludge or m u d Sirs,--I was most interested to read the note by G. L. Webber {Brit. Birds, 5 8: 296-297) on 'Birds trapped by sludge on a sewage farm'. I have found at Freckleton sewage farm and various other sites in Lancashire, includi...
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Notes

01 May 1943 Comments Notes 1942 I had excellent opportunities of observing the birds which frequent the southern shores of Ayr Bay, between the mouth of the river Doon and the Heads of Ayr. As a result I have been able to add three new birds to the Ayrshire list, and I include one...
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