Suffolk Bird Report 1973

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SUFFOLK BIRD REPORT 1973

Editor W . H . PAYN

assisted by The County Records Committee H . E . AXELL, C. G . D . CURTIS, T h e V e n . P . H . T . HARTLEY, G . J. JOBSON, a n d A. E . VINE.

Obituary. It is with much regret that we record the deaths during the year, of two well known Suffolk ornithologists, F. C. Cook and G. B. G. Benson. Both were members of the County Records Committee. Fred Cook was a naturalist and nature lover in the truest sense of the word and his knowledge of the wildlife of coastal Suffolk was probably unsurpassed. He was also among the last of the county bird-watchers of the Ticehurst era, having collaborated with C. B. Ticehurst throughout the latter's sojourn at Lowestoft. Chris Benson took up the study of birds rather late in life but nevertheless quickly made a name for himself as an extremely careful and competent observer, with an extensive knowledge of the bird life around his home at Southwold. His "Atlas" census on a farm at Reydon was a model for such surveys and an analysis of his work was duly honoured by publication in Bird Study. He was, at the time of his death, B.T.O. representative for the county.


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