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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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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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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01 December 1963
Comments Notes my last note on the recovery of Starlings marked at Bradfield, Berkshire (Brit. Birds, VI., p. 13), twenty-five captures have to be recorded. Only two of these occurred abroad, or indeed more than five miles from the place where they were ringed, viz. :-...
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01 September 1961
Comments Notes Manx Shearwater d i g g i n g by daylight.--At about 2.30 p.m. on 15th May 1961, I was walking in bright sunlight on a sloping cliff on Skokholm, Pembrokeshire, when I heard a Manx Shearwater (Procellaria puffinus) calling from its burrow. Kneeling down w...
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01 December 1960
Comments Notes Aggressive behaviour of Barrow's Goldeneye with young.-- Although Barrow's Goldeneye (Bucephala islandica) does not figure on the British and Irish list, the following notes may be of interest as an instance of an aggressive attitude during the breeding s...
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01 September 1959
Comments Notes with Mackerel shoals.--During- the months of July, August and September, Mackerel (Scomber scomber) habitually enter the Village Bay of Hirta, St, Kilda, in the late afternoon and evening. These shoals are often pursued by Grey Seals (Halichoerus gryphus)...
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01 August 1939
Comments Notes EASILY the outstanding ornithological event in Sussex for the year 1939 was the accomplished breeding, for the first time since about 1895, of a pair of Ravens (Corvus c. corax) in a sea-cliff some miles removed from the one in which, in 1938, (?) anothe...
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01 March 1929
Comments Notes SALTER reports a pair of Lesser Whitethroats (Sylvia c. curruca) at Aberystwyth from May 6th, 1928, onwards. The male was heard singing till July 2nd. This is a new record for the district, as the species is decidedly rare on the western seaboard of Wale...
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01 February 1929
Comments Notes Greenfinch (Chloris ch. chloris) ... Bullfinch (Pyrrhula p. nesa) Tree-Pipit (Atithus t. trivialis) ... Grey Wagtail (Motacilla c. cinerea) Stonechat (Saxicola t. hibemans) Martin (Delickon u. urbica) *Peregrine Falcon (Falco p peregrinus) Merlin (F. c. t...
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