SUFFOLK BIRD REPORT 1968 Editor W . H . PAYN
assisted by C . G . D . CURTIS
and The County Records Committee H . E . AXELL, G . B. G . BENSON, F . K . COBB, F . C . COOK, T h e R e v . P . H . T . HARTLEY, a n d A . E . VINE
Acknowledgements: We are once again indebted to the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and the Dingle Bird Club for providing records from their logs. Also to the Editors of the Norfolk Bird Report, the Essex Bird Report, and the Cambridge Bird Club Report for passing on relevant records and correspondence. SPECIAL SURVEY: Records of the same species as last year, i.e., woodlark, little owl, partridge, nightingale, and breeding wheatears are again asked for in 1969. Records for 1969 should be sent to the Editor at Härtest Place, Bury St. Edmunds (telephone Härtest 224) by the end of January next. Please ensure all records are arranged in accordance with The Check List of Gt. Britain and Ireland. It is regretted that ovving to increase in printing and other overheads, the price of this report has had to be increased to 10/6d. A Review of the Year The most notable event of the year, ornithologically, was the massive 'irruption' of nutcrackers which began early in August and which was on a scale never previously known in the county or indeed, in Britain. There was the usual good showing of rarities and two new species — the sociable plover and Richard's pipit — were added to the county list; in fact there may be a third, if the R.B.C. considers the white-throated sparrow, which was found at Lowestoft in December, to have been a genuine vagrant.