SUFFOLK BIRD REPORT 1965 Editor W. H.
PAYN
assisted by C. G. D .
CURTIS
and The County Records Committee H.
E.
AXELL,
G.
B.
P. H . T .
G.
BENSON,
F.
K.
COBB,
HARTLEY a n d A . E .
F.
C.
COOK,
VINE
WE are as usual indebted to the many observers who sent in records for the year and to the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, the Cambridge Bird Club, the Lowestoft Field Club, the Dingle Bird Club, and the Mildenhall Natural History and Archaeological Society for allowing the use of material from their own Reports or Logs. Please send 1966 notes to the Editor at Härtest Place, Burv 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, I pswich. 1 9 6 5 — S O M E OF THE YEAR'S EVENTS
The year was relieved from mediocrity by the vast migratory " fall " that took place on Sept. 3/4 and subsequent days and was centred very largely on the Suffolk coast. The number of birds and the number of species involved was on a scale probably never previously known—certainly never recorded. We are very grateful to H. E. Axell and D. J. Pearson for kindly compiling a Special Report on this remarkable " fall ". As a result of the wet and cold weather that prevailed throughout the summer, passerine breeding results seem to have been well below average but the warm, dry autumn that followed produced many late broods of blackbirds, linnets, and hedge-sparrows and particularly of pheasants and partridges. A number of cases of pheasants and partridges incubating eggs in September were reported. It was a bad game year generallv. However most of the more familiar species seem to be building up their numbers to pre-1963 levels, outstanding exceptions being the kingfisher, goldcrest, and grev wagtail—the latter