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Where do Waxwings roost?

25 January 2011 Comments Notes As every birdwatcher surely knows, Waxwings have been 'everywhere' this winter But where do they Â roost? No-one seems to have the answer to my question, and even online enquiries seem to have drawn a blank. If anyone can shed any light on the topic aft...

Common Raven taking food from hill-walkers

14 January 2011 Comments Notes On 17th July 2010, in the Mourne Mountains, Co Down, a Common Raven Corvus corax was observed approaching within 5 m of a group of hill-walkers in order to obtain food. I was part of a group of eight walkers who had stopped for food at the North ...

Barn Swallows with a taste for Snowcem

12 January 2011 Comments Notes During May 2010, I used a high-pressure water hose to blast some 'blown' Snowcem paint from the porch of our house in Fasnakyle, Cannich, Highland, before repainting. The large pieces of the old paint were easy enough to collect and dispose of but the cou...

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01 January 2011 Comments Notes In mid November 2009, an unfamiliar marsh tern appeared at Al Wathba Lake, some 40 km east of Abu Dhabi, UAE. Among some 40 Whiskered Chlidonias hybrida and two White-winged Black Terns C. leucopterus, it was distinctly darker and appeared superfi- cially...

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01 November 1946 Comments Notes RAVEN NESTING IN A ROOKERY, ON March loth, 1946, I flushed a Raven (Corvus c. cor ax) from a nest at the top of a tall pine in a conifer wood about five miles from Cardiff. In view of previous records of this species nesting in rookeries (antea, Vol. xxx...

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Where do Waxwings roost?

Common Raven taking food from hill-walkers

Barn Swallows with a taste for Snowcem

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