Notes

01 June 1960 Comments Notes Piracy by GadwalL--On 30th December 1959, near Cley, Norfolk, we watched four Gadwall (Anas strepera) worrying a drake Red-crested Pochard (Netta rufina), apparently with the aim of robbing it of its food. They followed it very closely and whenever it div...
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01 December 1937 Comments Notes I FIRST noticed a Sky-Lark (Alauda a. arvensis) building amongst rough grass on the West Lancashire Golf Course on June 12th, 1937. The nest then consisted of a hollow in black earth with a partial rim and bottom lining of dry grass, Once when the hen wa...
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01 September 1936 Comments Notes IN a wood running along the top of a hill in Surrey which I visited on June 24th, 1936, I heard a Chiffchaff (Phylloscopus collybita) singing in a tall conifer, and as soon as he stopped a Grasshopper-Warbler (Locustella ncevia) started to reel in the un...
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