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Nature Notes VORACIOUS GOOSANDERS
... Nature Notes VORACIOUS GOOSANDERS When fishing on the Tay recently I was told by tke fisketman , Jokn . Kennedy . 3 man of long experience on that fine salmon river , of a remarkable experience he had when harling . Harling is fishing for salmon ...
Nature Notes GROUSE SEASON
... Nature Notes GROUSE SEASON The close time for grouse ends with the month of July this year , but the question which moor-owners and their keepers are discussing at the moment is whether there will be any grouse to shoot . Reports from various parts ...
Nature Notes BLACKCAPS IN SCOTLAND
... Nature Notes BLACKCAPS IN SCOTLAND The blackcap belongs to that category of birds which are undistinguished by their plumage but whose distinction lies in their song . It is a woodland songster of the very highest rank , and is unique among the truly ...
NATURE NOTES PTARMIGAN'S ENEMIES
... NATURE NOTES PTARMIGAN'S ENEMIES Dukinc a long days walk over ptarmigan country recently I saw but three birds—a cock which presumably had a sitting male near , and a pair which had not nested / In previous seasons I had seen at least 30 pairs of birds ...
Nature Notes BIRDS OF TANTALLON
... Nature Notes BIRDS OF TANTALLON Observations made at the cliffs atTanlallon in 1937 revealed that about a dozen pairs of fulmars were nesting in that year—six pairs on the precipitous cliffs beneath the castle ruins and six on the other side of . the ...
Nature Notes FLIGHT OF THE GANNET
... Nature Notes FLIGHT OF THE GANNET The gannefc , usually Jcnoivn as the solan m Scotland , is a strong , determined fHe r , and yet the flight is so easy , almost effortless , that it is apt • to be deceptive . When a number ol solans were flying close ...
Nature Notes PEREGRINE'S ATTACK
... Nature Notes PEREGRINE'S ATTACK The older naturalists suspected that the peregrine falcon used its wing scimitar fashion to smite off the head of a quarry . Closer observation has proved Jhat the claws are the hawk ' s offensive weapons in all its methods ...
Nature Notes CHOUGHS IN KINTYRE
... Nature Notes CHOUGHS IN KINTYRE It was in early June of 1919-that I saw wliat I believe was the last young chough to be reared in Kintyre . 1 was not aware that there was a surviving bird of the species in the peninsula , for there had been none for some ...