Some Notes on the Bittern

01 October 1940 Comments Main paper the last ten days of April, 1940, I was able, bycourtesy of Mr. Jim Vincent, to sit in a hide over a Bittern (Botaurus s. stellaris). The following notes refer only to points not made in The Handbook of British Birds. A visit for any purpose of the cock b...
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Notes

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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