Notes

01 April 1979 Comments Notes Little Grebe uo-ending and foot-paddling On 15th April 1977, at Corsham Lake, Wiltshire, I watched a Little Grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis feeding in pools and channels formed when the lake was partly drained. In the deeper pools i...
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01 October 1971 Comments Notes Moorhen killing Jackdaw In view of A. Blackett's note (Brit. Birds, 63: 384), the following incident may be of interest. On 28th June 1964, at Corsham Lake, Wiltshire, I was watching a pair of Moorhens Gailitmla chbropus with five small chicks feeding by ...
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01 March 1971 Comments Notes Fulmars brooding substitute objects While visiting the Monach Islands off North Uist in the Outer Hebrides between 6th and 28th July 1970, I made a count of nesting Fulmars Fulmarus glacialis. I found 86 nests with eggs or young on the islands of Ceann Ea...
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