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Marsh Harrier hunting over water

25 December 2010 Comments Notes The recent note by Keith Mudd (Brit. Birds 103: 409) recalled the following. On 1st March 2006, I watched a female Marsh Harrier Circus aeruginosus drifting across the flooded washes at Holkham, Norfolk. Over open water, the harrier hove...

Blue Tits fighting in nestbox

18 December 2010 Comments Notes On 6th May 2010, with the aid of a camera mounted in a nestbox in my garden, I witnessed a savage fight between the female Blue Tit Cyanistes caeruleus that had built the nest and another Blue Tit. At the time of the fight, four eggs had been lai...

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01 December 2010 Comments Notes On 4th June 2009, I observed a brood of 11 newly fledged Gadwalls Anas strepera being led by a female across the main lagoon at Win- chester Sewage Treatment Works, Hampshire. On 10th June, I was amazed to see what I assumed was the same female (no oth...

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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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Marsh Harrier hunting over water

Blue Tits fighting in nestbox

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