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 Spring 2003 Vol.14. No. 2

Club news and announcements
Outings: dates  
Lakeland Book of the Year 
Bird Club Money Problems
Notes 
  Winter Gull Roost Survey
  Cumbria Raptor Study Group: Strategy 2004-2014
Articles
  A Happy Coincidence 
  Unusual use for bucket in Anthorn
  Buenos Aires, February 2003 - Costanera del sur Reserve
  An Oystercatcher nest site
  The Marsh Tits of Roudsea Wood
Arrival dates of migrants in Spring 2003
Recent reports
Recent BBRC decisions

Spring 2003 Vol.14. No. 1

Winter 2002 Vol. 13. No. 4

  1.  Indoor meetings, outings: dates  

Short notes
  2. Cormorant washed into lock at Whitehaven
  3. Derwentwater - breeding season highlights

Articles
  4. Migration movements of four common passerines
  5. Water Pipit and Scandinavian Rock Pipit in Cumbria, 1980-2000 -
  6. Terek Sandpiper - new to Cumbria
  7.  Recent reports

Cumbria Raptor Study Group-10-year review

Autumn 2002  Vol. 13 No. 3

Summer 2002 Vol. 13 No. 2

Club news and announcements

   1. Indoor meetings, outing: dates

   2.Survey Inventory: updates
   3.Mosedale - club outing
Short notes
   4.Ravens attempting to drop and catch nest material in partnership
   5.Raven behaviour at a Sheep carcass
   6.Unusual abundance of breeding Reed Buntings on moorland in 2002
   7.Daylight robbery
Articles
   8.Derwentwater Birdlife
   9.Cumbria Avifaunas: a history
Recent reports
  10.Arrival dates of migrants, 2002
  11.Recent BBRC decisions

Spring 2002 Vol. 13 No. 1

Club announcements and news
 1.   Forthcoming outings: Mosedale; Riggindale
 2.   Some suggestions for wader-watching 
 3.   Long-eared Owl survey
 4.   Letter from CBOC
 5.   Day trip to Loch Ryan
 6.   Winter Birdrace: results
 7.   The 2002 Birdrace - ‘Northern Orioles’-style
Short notes
 8.   Black Terns at Longtown Ponds
 9.   Adventurous Long-tailed Tits
Articles
10.   Seawatching from Newbiggin in autumn 2001
11.   Ospreys in Lakeland
12.   Recent reports

Winter 2001

Club news and announcements
1.    New and departing Council members
2.    Subscriptions
3.    Indoor meetings
Outings
4.    Winter Bird Race 
5.    CBC Wader Group 
6.    Top BTO award for Tommy 
7.    Cumbria grapevine
8.    Atlas sponsorship - last call!
Articles
9.    Your guide to Birding 
10.  The harbours of West Cumbria: 3 - Workington
11.  On the former nesting of Ospreys - Archive
12.  Threats to wildlife in Greenland
13.   Recent reports 

Autumn 2001

Club news and announcements
1.   Meetings programme
2.   The 2001 ‘Pelagics’
3.   The new CBC record card
4.   Cumbria Breeding Atlas Update
5.    Holy Island Outing - 22nd September 2001
Short note
6.    A ‘female’ male?
Outings
7,    The riches of La Brenne
8.    Harbours of West Cumbria 2: Parton
9.    Where do our wintering Chiffchaffs originate?
10.   Recent reports

Summer 2001

1.       Club news and announcements 
2.       Meetings programme  
3.       Outings
4.       Website news
Short Notes
5.       Cumbria Biodoversity Action Plan   
6.       Lakeland Ospreys breed at lasts
7.       Ringed Whooper Swans in Eden Valley, 1999-2000 
8.       Naturalised Goose Survey, 2000            
9.       A carrion-eating Grey Heron   
10.    Archive - Unconscious Black-headed Gulls at Ravenglass, 1957  
11.    Aggressive Buzzards of Cumbria        
12.    Aberrant Robin song 
 Articles        
13.    Little Egrets in Cumbria        
14.    Birding the harbours of West Cumbria        
15.    The birding delights of Christmas Island
16.    Recent reports           
17.    Recent BBRC decisions      
18.    Arrival dates of migrants, 2001 

Spring 2001

   1.  Club news and announcements
   2.  Changes to Officers; Subscriptions; Outings 2001  
   3.  Barry Marrs, a tribute
   4.  Winter Bird Race 
   5.  Questionnaire results         
   6.  A warm Aussie welcome  
   7.  Differing fortunes for Icelandic breeding geese 
   8.  Wanderings of a Whooper Swan  
Articles
   9.  Kershope Forest Mosaic          
 10.  Management on Skiddaw Mountain Massif  
 11. Recent reports           
 12. Recent BBRC decision  

Winter 2000

1. Club news and announcements
2. Winter season dates - 2000/1; Bird Race; Outings 2001
3. New Chairman: Peter Ullrich
4. Recent Meetings
5. Handicapped Ravens
6. The Hawfinch - a species in decline?
7. Aberrant Stonechat
8. Hay Bridge Bird-race
9. From Cumberland to Cumbria
10. Climate change: implications for bird monitoring in Cumbria
11. Recent reports
12. Recent BBRC decisions
13. The flight of the Ospreys

Autumn 2000

1. Club news and announcements
2. Winter season 2000/1 - dates
3. Outing to Campfield Marsh RSPB Reserve
4. Ken Hay - Obituary
5. More on Musselburgh
6. 'Unmistakable‘ birds
7. Grune‘s 'purple patch‘
8. An African adventure
9. UK birds at a low ebb
10. Recent reports
11. Recent BBRC decisions

Summer 2000

1. Club news and announcements
2. Summary of Records Panel decisions in 1999
3. Cumberland Bird Observers Club (New South Wales)
4. Bird & Habitat Conservation in N.S.W. over 20 years
5. A Club trip to the Firth of Forth - March 2000
6. Day trip to the Isle of Man, Sunday 14th May
7. Take Off
8. Goosander mobbing Golden Eagle
9. Predatory Jackdaws!
10. Another species for the ?Winter Bird Race‘
11. Origins of feral wildfowl in South Lakeland
12. Recent reports
13. Arrival dates of migrants in 2000

Spring 2000

1. Club news and announcements
2. A Club visit to the Ribble Estuary
3. The 2000 Winter Bird Race
4. Letters to the Editor
5. What are 'countable‘ birds for Bird Races?
6. Wood Ducks - setting the record straight
7. Artificial House Martin nests - again
8. First-summer Sabine‘s Gulls
9. Hume‘s Warbler - the long journey to acceptance as a Cumbrian first
10. Recent Reports
11. BBRC decisions

Winter 1999

1. Club news and announcements
2. The infamous Ruddy Duck cull
3. Twinning with a Bird Club in Australia
4. Hadrian‘s Bird Week 12th - 20th February 2000
5. The 1999 Atlas recording season
6. Recent meetings
7. Another large gull tale
8. Rapacious Magpies
9. An eldritch encounter
10. A summering Sabine‘s Gull
11. Recent reports
12. BBRC decisions

Autumn 1999

1. Club news and announcements
2. BBRC decisions
3. BOURC on the Sandscale Haws Purple Gallinule
4. World Bird Count
5. The 1999 Atlas recording season
6. A rogue gull or a worrying new trend?
7. 'Birds and Boys at Sedbergh‘ - book review
8. Walney Island - a long-range 'Local Patch‘
9. American Coot: new to Cumbria
10. The rise and rise of the Storm Petrel in Cumbrian waters
11. Recent Reports

Summer 1999

1. Announcements
2. Summary of Records Panel decisions, 1998
3. Angry Buzzard
4. The case of goose number AFT
5. News from RSPB, Haweswater
6. Serin: another new species for Cumbria
7. Southern Kershope
8. Changes in the status of birds in the Great Langdale valley
9. Recent Reports
10. Arrival dates of migrants in 1999
11. Recent BBRC decisions

Autumn 1998

1. Club News and Announcements
2. Fulmars at Parton
3. Further Tree-nesting Oystercatchers
4. Clean Your Bird Feeding Areas
5. Atlas Project Work in the Far North of Cumbria
6. Bramblings in Kendal Garden
7. Common Rosefinch Breeding in Cumbria
8. Recent Bird reports

Summer 1998

1. Announcements
2. Water Birds in Kendal
3. Walney Island Breeding Bird Survey 1997
4. Silent Spring in the Hills
5. Golden Eagle Killing Adult Peregrine Falcon
6. The BTO Garden Bird Survey
7. Recent Bird Reports
8. Arrival Dates of Summer Migrants

 Spring 1998

1. News and Announcements
2. Recent Meetings
3. Winter Bird Race Report
4. Alpine Bullfinches
5. Whinchat productivity in consecutive years 1996/97
6. BTO Winter shore counts
7. Inventory of Winter Cormorant Roosts and Inland Breeding Sites in Britain
   Recent Bird reports