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NATURE NOTES

... NATURE NOTES • EAIU . Y NESTS . : Sqjcd the beginning of tho present month thj uiulcrnoted nests hayo como under niy obMfvi tronj-BlaoK-birds , eight /; song - thrushes , fo ^ , starlings , six ; hedge accentors , two ; robins i qj . ! wood pigeons ...

Published: Saturday 21 March 1914
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2319 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

NATURE NOTES

... NATURE NOTES THE FOOD OP THE KESTEEL . Dttbisg a peregrination early in . June jj the island of Mull I was attracted by a kestrel hawk flying out from a rock . Afu , a somewhat diligent search , there being man ? rooks , I discovered the eyrie , and ...

Published: Saturday 20 December 1913
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2248 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

NATURE N'O-T-ES

... NATURE N'O-T-ES VOICES OF NIGHT BEDS . I have had under observation this year the nest ing habits of two night . birds , the long-eared owl and the nightjar , and amongst other things have noted some of the sounds produced by these birds . The cry of ...

Published: Saturday 24 August 1912
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2106 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

NATURE NOTES

... NATURE NOTES - . ,, IN THE GILL . Tee gill is one of the deep indentations by which the higher lands of the middle Cl yde drain to u \*> river , and is a close relation of the Lothian dei * and Berwickshire deans . . The name is of I ...

Published: Saturday 31 March 1917
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2260 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

NATURE NOTES

... NATURE NOTES - ¦ ESPEBIMENTS 0 ! . BOOTS . . ¦ Recently in eonnoction . with a school scienc ...

Published: Saturday 28 February 1914
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2130 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

NATURE NOTES

... NATURE NOTES , r pied BIRDS . Albino hnd pied birds may be-found in majiv parts of Great Britain , and in somo places the pied bird is not uncommon . Tho latter phenomenon may be duo to an injury , which has destroyed tho pigment in tho skin , and thus ...

Published: Saturday 08 March 1919
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1992 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

NATURE NOTES

... NATURE NOTES BCOTTISa WIXTERS PAST AND PRESENT . Records , of tho rigour of winter in Scotland go back to tho third Century . Dion Cassius , treating of tho Emperor ( Soptimius ) Soverus ' a campaigns in Caledonia , A . D . 209-10 , informs us that half ...

Published: Saturday 29 March 1919
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2018 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

NATURE NOTES

... NATURE NOTES BIRD NOTES—NOVEMBEB . Doting , the . wholo month the weather continued remarkably mild , with incessant gales and stron ! winds from south-west and west , so that the mnr ° bcr of bird 9 haunting tho shore lands waj \ much greater than in ...

Published: Saturday 08 December 1917
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2249 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

NATURE NOTES

... NATURE NOTES snowEiis or fishes and oticer things . ' A lltteb recently received by the writer from a Sundeeland naturalist recounts his first experionco of that , oxtraofdinary freak of nature—a shower oi fishes . - On the 24 th of August a thunderstorm ...

Published: Saturday 21 September 1918
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2068 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

NATURE NOTES

... NATURE NOTES THE SWANS ON DTJDD 1 NGSTON . LOCH . In October 1919 , when some notes on these swan ! were published , there me ' five of them on the loci —tho old . couple who ,. had been there for a grout many years , a young couple who had recent ...

Published: Saturday 02 October 1920
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2121 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

NATURE NOTES

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Published: Saturday 29 May 1926
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

NATURE NOTES

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Published: Friday 24 December 1926
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2 | Page: 8 | Tags: none