SUFFOLK BIRD REPORT 1970 Editor W . H . PAYN
assisted by The County Records Committee H . E . AXELL, G . B. G . BENSON, F . K . COBB, F . C . COOK, C . G . D . CURTIS, T h e V e n . P . H . T . HARTLEY, a n d A . E . VINE
Acknowledgements: We are as usual indebted to the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, the Lowestoft Field Club 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. Records of 1971 should be sent to the Editor at Härtest Place, Bury St. Edmunds (telephone 983 224) by the end of January next. Please ensure all records are arranged in accordance with The Check List of Gt. Britain and Ireland. Species for Special Survey. Breeding records of the following species during 1971 and 1972 are particularly needed: Green woodpecker, cuckoo, lesser whitethroat, redstart, whinchat, wheatear, and nightjar. N.B. also that the B.T.O. is particularly asking for breeding records of quail, water-rail, woodcock, barn owl, long-eared owl, lesser spotted woodpecker, and hawfinch for inclusion in the Ornithological Atlas. Records can be sent to G. B. G. Benson, 17 South Green, Southwold (the B.T.O. organiser) or to the Editor, Suffolk Bird Report. A number of back numbers of Suffolk Bird Report for the following years are available from the Editor: 1955-63 inclusive, 1966, and 1969. A Review of the Year Without being in any way outstanding, 1970 nevertheless produced a good deal that was of ornithological interest. The warm, dry summer—the finest for many years—should have given a much-needed fillip to the breeding success of many of the smaller passerines, whose numbers have long been on the decline. However, reports do not suggest that this was markedly so, except in the case of the bearded tit which did outstandingly well.