Notes

01 July 1980 Comments Notes Cormorant perching on electricity cable Various gulls (Laridae) and terns (Sternidae) have been noted perching on wire (Brit. Birds 72: 343-344) following the statement by W. G. Harvey (Brit. Birds 70: 545-546) that he could find no reference t...
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Notes

01 October 1974 Comments Notes Egg-laying by the Great Crested Grebe Although the behaviour of Great Crested Grebes Podiceps cristatus has been intensively studied, many questions are still open. One such question is how Great Crested Grebes lay their eggs, and whether they exhibit ...
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Notes

01 September 1973 Comments Notes Unusual hunting behaviour of Sparrowhawks During February 1972, at Benacre, Suffolk, I spent several hours observing a pair of Sparrowhawks Accipiter nisus hunting over a particular field which had been left to seed. This field was the feeding ...
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Notes

01 May 1969 Comments Notes Woodpigeons cooing at night J. N . Tomlinson's note and the accompanying editorial comment (Brit. Birds, 62: 76-77) give the impression that it is exceptional for Woodpigeons Columba palumbus to call at night. In the past 28 years, however, living in thre...
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Notes

01 September 1960 Comments Notes Curlew Sandpipers wintering in Lancashire.--On 2nd January i960, I saw a Curlew Sandpiper {Calidris testacea) on the mud-flats of the Ribble Estuary at Lytham, Lancashire. O n 12th February there were three there and from then until April up to six were s...
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Do English Woodpigeons Migrate?

01 July 1955 Comments Main paper T H E object of this short paper is to draw attention to a curious problem in the hope that others will help in solving it. The observations here described, made independently by Lack round Oxford and by Ridpath in Kent and Sussex, cannot be satisfactoril...
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Letters

01 April 1929 Comments Letters SIRS,--The observations conducted b y Messrs. Ingram and Salmon on the dives of the Long-tailed Duck (antea, p . 264) reopen a veryinteresting question, and one which, I think, is still some way from being satisfactorily answered. In estimating the averag...
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