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Personalities. 16. S. C. Madge

01 August 1978 Comments Main paper When Steve Madge first saw the light of day at Tor Point, Cornwall, in the winter of 1948, his mother gained what must have been the prototype bundle of joy and British ornithology one of its more colourful characters. His early days were spe...

Mystery photographs

01 August 1978 Comments Main paper From some tangled bushes, out pops a largish, dull warbler with prominent legs and an apparently enormous bill. It is obviously not a Phylloscopus or a Sylvia, so it is sensible to consider the genera Acrocephalus and Hippolais; the wide base to the bi...

Recent increases of Blackcaps at bird observatories

01 August 1978 Comments Main paper Large number s of migrant \ Blackcaps have become very noticeable. This trend is quantified and its cause s discussed Full-time wardening at bird observatories enables annual variations in numbers and long-term population trends of migran...

Variations in Herring Gulls at a Midland roost

01 August 1978 Comments Main paper The Herring Gulls observed in central England in winter appear to be of at least four distinct types. Can they be related to known races? Where do they originate? Most species of gull show relatively little individual variation in adult plumage...

Rough-legged Buzzards in Britain in 1973/74 and 1974/75

01 August 1978 Comments Main paper In the winters of 1973/74 and 1974/75 there wer e two very large influxes of Rough-legged Buzzards into Britain. In the first winter, 170 may have been present during October, and up to 250 in the same month of the following year. These numbers, a...

Observations on a Scaup-Duck and Brood on the Lincolnshire Coast

01 March 1945 Comments Main paper O N August 7th, 1944, while studying birds on the salt-marsh round Tetney Creek, Lines., on the Humber estuary, I observed two or three smallish diving-duck which puzzled me ; and on August 8th, independently, S/Ldr. Peter Hill saw the birds in the same p...

Observations on the breeding Birds of Lundy in 1942

01 March 1945 Comments Main paper THROUGH the kindness of Mr. M. C. Harman, the owner, and by permission of the Admiralty the writers were able to spend from July 2nd to loth, 1942, on Lundy. The primary object was to investigate the status of the Manx Shearwater (Puffinus p. puffinus),'...

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