Notes

13 March 2014
Comments Notes Partridge plunging into water At about midday on 9th February 1972, we witnessed a remarkable piece of behaviour by a Partridge Perdix perdix at Fairham Brook, a tributary of the Trent at Clifton, Nottingham. At the point where this occurred the brook flo...
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Notes

01 July 1982
Comments Notes Great White Egrets with red legs and black bills On 25th October 1981, J. Mikuska, A. Dijksen, J. Kuypers and I observed a flock of 110 Great White Egrets Egretta alba on a fishpond near the Kopacki-Rit in Yugoslavia. Among these herons, J M di...
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Notes

01 December 1971
Comments Notes Interaction of Short-eared Owl, Kestrel and H e n Harrier over pipit prey I read with interest the note by T. M. Clegg and D. S. Henderson (Brit. Birds, 64: 317-318) on a Kestrel Falco tinnunculus taking prey from a Short-eared Owl Asia flammeus. At 09.40...
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