Notes

01 October 1944
Comments Notes ON April 24th, 1942, near Bow, mid-Devon, Sgt. H. Huggins, R.A.F., found the nest of a Carrion-Crow (Corvus c. coro-ne) containing two young birds just hatched, three eggs just chipping and three which were found to be hard set, evidently about a week fr...
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Notes

01 August 1944
Comments Notes ON March 26th, 1943, K. Williamson and one of the writers, W.S.C., when engaged on a rookery census were surprised to hear a pair of Ravens (Corvus c. corax) croaking anxiously and flying around Montpelier Wood in the heart of Sully Glen, Isle of Man. De...
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Letters

01 January 1929
Comments Letters SIRS,--May I be spared a little space to invite the attention of your readers to the Annual Report of the Oxford Ornithological Society on the Birds of Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire. This Report, the last issue of which you were good enough t...
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Notes

01 January 1929
Comments Notes ON May 4th, 1928, I watched a Goldfinch (Carduelis c. britannica) snapping off the stalks, about two inches from the head, of some " Forget-me-nots " (Myosotis) in our garden in west Sussex. The bird, which was accompanied by a second bird, soon flew off...
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