Notes

01 August 1940
Comments Notes ON June 4th, 1940, on a common in Cheshire I found a nest of a Tree-Pipit (Anthus t. trivialis) with recently hatched young. The parent bird sat very close after going down with food, whilst I was searching for the nest; when it left the nest it fluttere...
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Notes

01 September 1933
Comments Notes RAYMOND PHILIPSON'S paper on Rooks and their roosts in South Northumberland (antea, p. 66) prompts me to forward some notes I made in the same area nearly thirty years ago. From 1904 to 1906 I lived on the west side of Newcastle. Rooks were notable birds...
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01 May 1932
Comments Notes IN the Practical Handbook of British Birds, Vol. I., p. 501, it is stated that " t h e British Dipper (Cinclus c, gularis) is very scarce in . . . Durham". This statement is certainly misleading, as the Dipper is plentifully distributed on the banks of a...
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