Letters

01 November 1960
Comments Letters "Kestrel pellets at a winter roost" Sirs,--I read with interest the paper by T. A. W. Davis on his examination of pellets of Kestrels (Falco tinnunculus) at winter roosts in Pembrokeshire {Brit. Birds, 53: 281-284). May I, however, make one small correcti...
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Notes

01 July 1960
Comments Notes Olivaceous Warbler i n Co. Donegal.--At about 6 p.m. on 29th September 1959 I found a strange warbler among the small walled enclosures of the lighthouse grounds at the western end of Tory Island, Co. Donegal. The light was very poor and fading, so that b...
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Kestrel pellets at a winter roost

01 July 1960
Comments Main paper D U R I N G T H E W I N T E R of 1958-59 I collected 113 pellets of Kestrels (Falco tinnunculus) beneath roosts in a disused quarry near the Dale estuary, Pembrokeshire. The quarry is on a steep bracken-covered hillside surrounded by farmland and the salt...
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