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01 December 1988 Comments Reviews The Dragonflies of Europe. By R. R. Askew, (Harley Books, Great Horkesley, 1988. 291 pages. £49.95.) Every species meticulously illustrated in colour with the text covering description of the adult, biology (behaviour, jizz, habitat, etc.), flight per...

Monthly reports: August reports

01 December 1988 Comments News and comment The unsettled weather experienced in July did not continue into August. High pressure in mid Atlantic brought quiet, but cool northerlies until 4th, when the high-pressure centre moved over the south of England, and warm southerly air arrived to give a...

Notes

01 December 1988 Comments Notes Fulmar attempting to take young Raven from nest. On 29th April 1985, while walking along the cliffs at Yesnaby, Mainland, Orkney, I approached a traditional nest site of a Raven Corvus corax. From about 150 m, I looked through binoculars at the nest, w...

Monthly reports: June reports

01 October 1988 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records. Unless otherwise stated, dates refer to June 1988 After three days of Atlantic westerlies, the Azores anticyclone extended north on 4th to the west of Britain and Ireland, turning the winds t...

Monthly reports: May reports

01 September 1988 Comments News and comment As in April, anticyclones near to Britain and Ireland resulted in mainly dry, settled weather, asfrontal systems became slow-moving and inactive. A high-pressure region over northern Europe from 6th to 16th brought easterly winds with warmer spells of wea...

Monthly reports: November reports

01 March 1988 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records. Unless otherwise stated, dates refer to November 1987. An anticyclone covered Britain and Ireland during the first week, with resulting quiet and mild conditions. From 8th, westerly cyclonic ...

Monthly reports: October reports

01 February 1988 Comments News and comment In the first week, an anticyclone stayed close by over the Continent, bringing warm east to southeast winds. As the centre of pressure moved eastwards, the weather became cyclonic, and wet westerlies arrived on 7th. A series of weather fronts trailed acro...

Reviews

01 February 1988 Comments Reviews T h i s book is a guide to the birds and their habitats of the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex a n d C a m b r i d g e s h i r e . P e t e r a n d M a r g a r e t Clarke have c o m b i n e d their own extensive knowledge, gained from a lifetime's bird...

Monthly reports: September reports

01 January 1988 Comments News and comment T h e s e are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records T h e dates in this report refer to September 1987 unless otherwise stated. At t h e b e g i n n i n g of t h e m o n t h , t h e pressure remained high to the east, slowing t h e p r o g ...

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