Drumming Goldfinch

26 September 2014 Comments Notes In late May 2014, in my garden on Scilly, I was watching a Goldfinch Carduelis carduelis on a niger feeder that I had constructed from a plastic bottle. To my great surprise I then heard what seemed to be a Great Spotted Woodpecker drumming - Gre...
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Notes

01 September 1962 Comments Notes Shelduck moulting in breeding area.--On 9th July 1961, in an area of extensive fresh grazing marshes in north Kent, I noticed an adult male Shelduck (Tadorna tadornd) swimming along the edge of a large fleet. The knob on its bill had regressed, but it was...
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