Notes

01 January 1950
Comments Notes IT is well-known that a great many species of birds make use of old nests of the Magpie (Pica pica). I have several times seen examples of Carrion Crows (Corvus corone) doing so. In 1949, for the first time, I have had an example of Rooks (C. frugilegus)...
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Notes

01 September 1947
Comments Notes ON April 22nd, 1947, near Muthill, Perthshire, I caught a glimpse, from a car, of a commotion in some rough grassland near the edge of a wood. I stopped the car and my wife and I then saw that a pair of Carrion Crows (Corvus c. corone) was attacking some...
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Notes

01 May 1946
Comments Notes DURING a continuation of observations on migration in the Trent Valley near Nottingham in 1945, the following species were noted, most of the records being the first for the county and therefore worthy of-record. ICTERINE WARBLER (Hippolais icterina),--A...
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