Selected Bibliography:

Agar N.  (2001) – Common Bird Census at Watery Grove 1972 – 1999 (Hertfordshire Natural History Transactions vol. 34)

Ashby M. (2002) – Stevenage History & Guide

Ashby M. and Hills D. (2010) – Stevenage a history from Roman Times to the present day

Astonbury Wood Nature Reserve – Annual Reports 1976 – 1980

Balchin J. (1980) – First New Town

British Naturalists Association – Hertfordshire Branch (2023) Bulletin 144

Clark M. (2001) – Mammals Amphibians and Reptiles of Hertfordshire

Crossman A. F. (1902) – Birds in the Victoria History of Hertfordshire Part 1

Foster A. H. (1914) -The Birds of North Herts

Foster A. H. – (1917) A list of Birds which have occurred in North Herts, with notes on each species  (Hertfordshire Natural History Transactions vol. xvi)

Game Book of Colonel Unwin-Heathcote 1895 to 1900

Gladwin T. W. and Sage B.L. (1985) – The Birds of Hertfordshire

Herts Bird Club Bulletins, January 1978 to March 1983, and March 1994 to August 2008

Hertfordshire Natural History Society Transactions Vol. 1 to Vol. 57

Herts Bird Club Website 1999 to date

Hine R. L. (1934) – The Natural History of the Hitchin Region

Holloway S. (1996) – The Historical Atlas of Breeding Birds in Britain and Ireland 1875 to 1900 

James O. – Wildlife in Stevenage

Jenkins A. R. (1958) – The Birds of the Letchworth Region 

Jewitt K. (2020) – Red Sixty Seven

MacDonald B. (2019) – ReBirding

Mead C. (2000) – The State of the Nations Birds 

Mead C. and Smith K.W. (1982) – The Hertfordshire Breeding Bird Atlas 

North Herts Birders Log 1989 to 1991

Sage B. (1959) – A History of the Birds of Hertfordshire 

Smith K.W., Dee C.W., Fearnside J.D., Fletcher E.W. and Smith R.N. (1993) -The Breeding Birds of Hertfordshire 

Smith K.W., Dee C. W., Fearnside J. D., Ilett M. (2015) – Birds of Hertfordshire

Stevenage & District Ornithological Society Bird Reports 1965 to 1981

Stevenage Woodland Conservation Society – “Leaves” – The Members Bulletin of the Stevenage Woodland Conservation Society October 1969 to November 1973

Stevenage Woodland Conservation Society – Monks Wood and Whomerly Wood

Turner D. (2007) – Jack Pallett’s memories and Village History

Wallace I. (1981) – Bird watching in the Seventies 

Wallis D (2005) – Recollections of Old Stevenage 1940-1955