SUFFOLK BIRD REPORT 1964 Editor W.
H.
PAYN
assisted by C.
G.
D.
CURTIS
and The County Records Committee H.
E.
AXELL,
G. P. H.
B. T.
G.
BENSON,
HARTLEY a n d
F.
K.
A. E.
COBB, F .
C.
COOK,
VINE
again we are indebted to the many observers who sent in records for the year and also to the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, the Cambridge Bird Club, the Lowestoft Field Club, and the Dingle Bird Club for allowing the use of material from their own Reports or Logs. We were particularly glad to have records also this year from the Mildenhall Natural History and Archaelogical Society and from the Nature Conservancy. ONCE
Species selected for special survey in 1966 are : red-backed shrike, little grebe, green woodpecker, and kingfisher. N.B. Nil records are always valuable. Please send 1965 notes to the Editor at Härtest Place, Bury St. Edmunds by the end of JANUARY next. Separate copies of this report, price 4/6d. including postage, are available on request from the Editor or from C. G. D. Curtis, 100 Camden Road, Ipsvvich. 1964—A
BRIEF REVIEW OF THE YEAR'S EVENTS
A mild winter, followed by an exceptionally warm and sunny summer, enabled many species which had been seriously reduced by the Great Frost of 1963, to build up their numbers again. Observers in all parts of the county reported that breeding results during 1964 of most passerine birds seemed to have been exceptionally good, with many successful second broods. By the autumn such species as long-tailed tits, wrens, tree-creepers, song thrushes, and pied wagtails were almost back to their pre1963 numbers, though there was evidently much local Variation in the extent of the recovery. A good recovery in numbers of moorhens, woodcock, and water-rails also took place but goldcrests and green woodpeckers were still very scarce in many localities. Recovery in kingfisher numbers was—and still is—very slow, but they are now being noted here and there on both sides of the county.