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LIDICKER
1972
April 28 cont.
7:10 flight for London. Arrived about 2030. Ward gave me a ride to Leicester Square so he did to go to his office to develop lists etc, and took the tubes from there, arriving about 2240.
Birds list 9 June of May:
Lesser Kestrel - 3 (not red throated) - seen on way out to Isle.
Gannet - 2 (23rd), 3 (24th), 3+ (28th)
Fulmar - con (seen every day)
Sloes - con. (many sitting on gyps)
Cormorant - sev. imm. (23rd), 1 ch. (24th), 2 (25th)
Eider - con.
Shelduck - 2+ (23rd), 2 (24th), 1 (26th), 2 (28th)
Dyestach - sev. every day, 6+ (26th).
Turnstone - sev. hundred every day.
Redshank - 1 (23rd)
Purple Sandpiper - 1 (23rd)
Curlew - 1 (24th)
Gt. B.B. Gull - 1 (23rd), 1 fr. (24, 25, 26, 27, & 28th).
Less. B.B. Gull - con.
Herring Gull - abundant; on 27th, 1 chick of 3 found; 1 fr. seen
Common Gull - 1 (23rd on drift out), 3 (28th on drift back).
Kittiwake - cloud. (20 eggs seen).
Razor-billed Duck - con.
Starling pairs copul. on 25th; 2 small 9s have egg-mips &
Brilliant (= Con. Murres) - con. (2 of them seen together possibly)
polled).
Puffin - 50+ (23rd), 250+ (24th), 2000+ (25th), 1000+ (26th.),
500+ (27th), & 500+ (28th). Many with eggs.
Rock Dove (lots of dom. gens during) - 20+ (23rd), 6+ (24th),