Correction

01 March 2003
Comments Editorials The figures for the number of European Honey-buzzards Pernis apivorus breeding in the UK, published in the annual report of the Rare Breeding Birds Panel for 2000 (Ogilvie et al. 2002), considerably under-reported the number of pairs, especial...
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Notes

01 February 1985
Comments Notes Green-backed Heron in Humberside. On 27th November 1982, together with other observers, including T. Bell and P. A. Bentley, we were searching for a Great White Egret Egretta alba that had been reported in the Thorngumbald area on the north side of the...
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Notes

01 March 1983
Comments Notes Red-necked Grebe making nest-building movements in winter. On 22nd November 1979, at Ghouet Bay, Guernsey, I saw a Red-necked Grebe Podiceps grisegena feeding in company with a Red-breasted Merganser Mergus srrator. After ten minutes the two moved 90m ...
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Honey Buzzard at wasps' nest

01 February 1979
Comments Main paper Honey Buzzard Pernis apivorus was watched at a nest of a social wasp Vespula at Holkham, Norfolk, from 11th to 16th October 1976. As there appears to be only one account of feeding behaviour in the British literature (Trap-Lind 1962), and this relates ...
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Notes

01 May 1973
Comments Notes Little Grebe eating bread On 7th October 1972, in Dunham Park, Cheshire, I was watching three Little Grebes Tachybaptus ruficollis, two adults and a juvenile, feeding on a pond at the side of a public footpath. There were also about 20 tame Mal...
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