Notes

01 May 1986 Comments Notes Abnormal duration of parental care by male Blackbird. At 16.05 GMT on 14th April 1981, in the Cambridge University Botanic Garden, a female Blackbird Turdus merula collecting food for her six-day-old nestlings was killed by a Tawny Owl Strix aluco hunt...
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01 November 1977 Comments Notes Kestrels hunting long-eared bats On thq evening of 5th August 1975, in calm, hot, sultry weather with good visibility, I watched two Kestrels Falco tinnunculus hunting bats around the cliffs of Middle Head and Kay Nest, Bilsdale Midcable, ...
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01 September 1940 Comments Notes EARLY in May, 1940, a pair of Crossbills (Loxia c. curvirostra) were seen about a garden near Woking and on the n t h both male and female were watched feeding a recently fledged brood, which was later found to number five young. On the 13th the male bro...
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