Never mind Bird Forum, have a click on this link ( or copy into the browser)-
Vasculum...
Then click on 1917 and 1951 etc and have a read. Thats what its all about. Mssrs Bolam, Dunn and Heslop-Harrison were never bogged down by the debate.
The more I hear about 'modern' birding, the more I crave the old naturalists years...
I think I can feel a New Years resolution coming on.......
This will be me soon...but without the butterflies...
Me now...well not as thin...and without a gun...
And if you dont know who this is....time to get reading some of our heritage...
[Its Harry Witherby of 'The Handbook' fame. To make it more local, he shot Northumberland's first Blyth's Reed Warbler on Holy Island in September 1912 ]
