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... Nature Notes ORKNEY VISITORS CROSSBILLS WIDELY DISTRIBUTED DuRING the last fortnight of June and the first fortnight of July reports of crossbills eame almost daily from widely scattered districts over the mainland of Orkng and some of the smaller islands ...
... NATURE NOTES HERALDS OF THE SPRING Sweet call of the curlews For me, spring usually arrives each on the marshiands across theriver. Now year either in the sudden gold of eariy and again they rose in stiff, widewild fiowers or the equally golden notes ...
... Nature Notes DYKE GARDEN COLOUR CONTRASTS BY THE WAYSIDE As I looked at the crumbling but still substantial dry-stane dyke tl’tat 1 pass by every day, I wondered had those old-time craftsmen of an almost lost art realised the wonderful heritage they had ...
... Nature Notes HILLSIDE BIRDS VARIED MIGRANTS ON THE LAMMERMUIRS A Rrecent walk over the Lammermulrs | revealed the numbers and variety of birds—especially summer migrantsthat have their nesting territory in the hills. Following the tracks through the valleys ...
... Nature Notes EXOTIC VISITOR ROLLER RECORDED IN BERWICKSHIRE A REQUEST to telephone urgently to an unknown person or number is always unsettling, and when I received a message at Coldstream last Saturday to telephone at 2 p.m. to a small post office in ...
... Nature Notes WOODLAND MUSIC BIRDS IN SONG IN THE LOTHIANS THe evening of March 8 might have passed for April 8, so mild was the wind, so fiint the s.m.tn;t sun. The eountrr-de, however, lacked that sparkle which on{ April brings, and which is the outward ...
... Nature Notes FLORAL GEMS SOME TWEEDSIDE DISCOVERIES It ils nearly 50 years sinece | recorded‘ my first “good plant (Arum maculatum) on Tweedside and. since that time, it has been my good fortune to examine the flora. at least once a year, of that part ...
... Nature Notes GULL GATHERING CONTRASTS IN SIZE AND PLUMAGE PasslNG along the shore road between Cockenzie and Aberlady on November 16 I came upon a large flock of guils resting at full tide above the highwater mark. The flock included five varieties of ...
... Nature Notes SUMMER MIGRANTS SWALLOWS, MARTINS AND WARBLERS THE first sight of a summer migrant I had this year was at the River Tyne on April 17. The strong north-westerly gale which had persisted for several days died down in the evening, and two s ...
... Nature Notes “DANGER BERRIES” POISONOUS FRUITS OF THE COUNTRYSIDE 1 mave frequent inquiries concerning our wild fruits of the countryside, and cases have been mentioned to me of children suffering severely through eating unknown berries. One of the most ...
... Nature Notes SHREW HABITS ANIMALS TRAPPED IN HOUSES Are some of the shrews of this country changing habits and hunting grounds? One might almost imagine so to judge from some recent behaviour. There are in Britain three species of shrew—the water shrew ...
... NATURE NOTES DON’T PUT THE BLAME ON THE TITMICE ...