Notes

01 May 1939
Comments Notes IN May, 1937, I watched a hen Blackbird (Turdus m. merula) at the weir at Cropston Reservoir, Leicestershire, catching what I took to be minnows, but they may have been sticklebacks. The fish had been stranded in small shallow pools and were swimming abo...
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The Irish Gannet Colonies, 1938

01 March 1939
Comments Main paper THE two main breeding-stations of the Gannet (Sula bassana) in Ireland, Little Skellig and the Bull Rock, are situated off the coasts of Cork and Kerry. Owing to its exposed position in a remote locality attempts to land on Little Skellig have rarely been...
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