Notes

01 December 1977
Comments Notes Great Crested Grebes breeding on rivers Bruce Campbell and James Ferguson-Lees (1971, A Field Guide to Birds' Nests) stated that Great Crested Grebes Podiceps cristatus occasionally breed on stretches of slow-flowing rivers. In the 1970s, in Bu...
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01 January 1968
Comments Notes Feeding relationship between mullet and Herring Gulls.--On 26th August 1967, at Cape Clear Island, Co. Cork, I watched a shoal of mullet Mugil sp. swimming in ten feet of water alongside a small trawler tied up in the North Harbour. These mullet were lift...
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01 November 1964
Comments Notes Manx Shearwater as prey of Peregrine in central Scotland.--On 12th June 1964, near Cairngorm, Inverness-shire, I discovered the remains of an adult Manx Shearwater Procellaria puffinus in the eyrie of a pair of Peregrines Falco peregrinus. The body had be...
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01 September 1953
Comments Notes Nesting of Curlew on river shingle-beds.--Of late years Curlews (Numenius arquata) have been nesting in increasing numbers on inland pastures and meadows in Northumberland, whereas formerly they were birds of the moorlands, nesting on heather-clad hills ...
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01 July 1948
Comments Notes DURING the spring of 1947 I saw what certainly appeared to be bigamous behaviour by a male Rook (Corvus f. frugilegus) Unfortunately, the observations were rather disjointed, a continuous watch not being possible. On March 14th a well-advanced nest was s...
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01 December 1946
Comments Notes ON April 26th, 1946, I found near Portchester, Hants., the nest of a Magpie (Pica p. pica) containing eleven eggs, all very round in shape and smaller than usual. Only one hen was observed at the nest, which is in a hawthorn and has been used for years ;...
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01 March 1946
Comments Notes O N March ijth, 1945, I was in a convoy moving slowly south through the'Irish Sea. The day was brilliantly fine, the sea quite calm. In the morning the Welsh Hills were visible, but otherwise we saw neither coast. There was no fog, however. There was a v...
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01 July 1943
Comments Notes NOTES FROM CUMBERLAND (Bombycilia garrulus).--Single bird near Cumdivock on December 27th, 1939. HEDGE-SPARROW (Prunella m. occidentalis).--During three weeks of frost in January 1941 as many as ten birds were noticed feeding quietly together amongst the...
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01 November 1942
Comments Notes SOMETIME ago my attention was attracted by the curious behaviour of a pair of Carrion-Crows (Corvus c. corone). They were on a house in one of the new housing estates near London, and were engaged in Walking or half-running up and down the sloping roof w...
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