Letters

01 June 1962 Comments Letters Black-headed Gtills eating acorns Sirs,--With reference to earlier notes on the subject of Black-headed Gulls (Lams ridibundus) eating acorns (Brit. Birds, 50: 75 and 347; 54: 118 and 130-131), I should like to point out that the late Humphrey Swann recor...
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Notes

01 June 1962 Comments Notes Red-legged Partridge paddling in the sea.--On 24th March 1962, at Hunstanton, Norfolk, I saw a Red-legged Partridge {Alectoris rufa) standing in the shallow waves of the incoming tide about 250 yards below high water mark. It was a warm, dry afternoon and...
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Notes

01 April 1958 Comments Notes Fish-hook in Heron's pellet.--In March 1956 Tom Schutte brought me the pellet of a Heron (Ardea cinerea) that he had found on the 4th of that month, by the River Beane at Waterford, Hertfordshire. It was composed almost entirely of fur (? W a t e r Vole, ...
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