Notes

01 September 1939
Comments Notes PROOF of the sex of the bird choosing the nesting-site is generally so difficult to obtain that it seems worth while to record some evidence in the case of a House-Sparrow (Passer d. domesticus) in my garden in the spring of 1939. Early in March I notice...
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Notes

01 July 1931
Comments Notes ON May 1st, 1931, in an open hole in a limb of a great ash tree at Bamston Lodge, Essex, I found a Jackdaw (Colceus m. spermologus) sitting on four eggs so much mud-daubed that they were very inconspicuous on the nest material. I had not time to investig...
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Notes

01 June 1931
Comments Notes ON May 14th, 1931, a Hawfinch {Coccothraustes c. coccoihraustes), apparently a male, flew across in front of my car on the Perth-Blairgowrie road, about if miles from Perth. As far as I am aware this is the first record in the county for about five years...
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