Notes

01 December 1964
Comments Notes Apparent anting by Kestrel.--On 22nd September 1962 a friend and I were driving along the main road between Port Clarence and Seaton Carew, Co. Durham, when we saw a female Kestrel Falco tinnunculus fly up from an adjacent strip of rough grassland and ali...
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Notes

01 March 1963
Comments Notes IT is gratifying to see Mr. C. S. Meares's note on th Crossbill (Loxia c. curvirostra) breeding in Shropshire an Norfolk (British Birds, Vol. VI., p. 371), and to find that i has also bred in Surrey (Countryside, Vol. V., p. 387). Ther can be no doubt as...
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Letters

01 July 1937
Comments Letters SIRS,--I feel that, in order t o bring this u p t o date, some comments are called for as regards Mr. Stanley Lewis's interesting account of " Birds of Steep Holm " (Vol. X X X . , pp. 219-223) in view of t h e fact t h a t for t h e past five years (1933...
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Notes

01 April 1935
Comments Notes THE following notes on the Tree-Sparrow (Passer m. montanus), near Great Budworth, Cheshire, were made at the same colony as the notes in British Birds, XXV., 278-285 ; XXVI., 273-4; XXVII., 259-60. Return to nesting-trees.--First seen on February 18th; ...
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