Recent Reports

01 August 1977
Comments News and comment [We are pleased to announce that S. C. Madge, recently co-opted on to the Rarities Committee (Brit. Birds 70: 307), has joined K. Allsopp as co-author of this feature. EDS]  This report covers May and the first part of June. Unless otherwi...
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News and Comment

01 August 1977
Comments News and comment An oily spring The first half of 1977 has been distinguished by the occurrence of five at least equally interesting and instructive oil pollution incidents, which have received vastly different amounts of comment. On 13th February, 80 tons o oil e...
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Request

01 August 1977
Comments Editorials Photographers are reminded that colour transparencies and black-and-white prints taken during 1977 will be eligible for the second 'Bird Photograph of the Year' award. The rules will be the same as in 1976 (Brit. Birds 69: 421). Entries should not be s...
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Letters

01 August 1977
Comments Letters Melanistic Grey Heron Bryan L. Sage (in litt.) has confirmed that, when making his recent comment (Brit. Birds 70: 76), he had overlooked my record of a melanistic Grey Heron Ardea cinerea at Little Tring Reservoir, Tring, Hertfordshire, on 29th S...
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Reviews

01 August 1977
Comments Reviews Birds of the Coast and Sea: Britain and Northern Europe. By Bruce Campbell, with illustrations by Raymond Watson. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1977. 152 pages; 64 colour plates. £3.75. This is an attractive small book with a well-written a...
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Notes

01 August 1977
Comments Notes Kestrel hiding food At dusk on 6th April 1976, at Ynys-hir, Dyfed, J. Parry and I saw a male Kestrel Falco tinnunculus fly on to a bank below us about 20 m away. The falcon was carrying prey in one foot, which we later found to be a Wheatear Oe...
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Mystery photographs

01 August 1977
Comments Main paper Scanning through an autumn party of common Calidris waders, one seems smaller and quicker than its companions. It lacks, however, the compactness and constant activity of a stint and, because it looks noticeably long in outline, is rather a puzzle. Att...
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Personalities. 8. Bernard King

01 August 1977
Comments Main paper Bernard King's name must be one of the most familiar to readers of this journal: his regular contributions, mostly in the 'Notes' section, started in 1942 with 'Unusual migrants in Surrey' (Brit. Birds 36: 76) and the latest—the 113th!—appears in t...
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