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... Nature Notes remaining who, having made the journey at least once, could lead the way. In truth, Birtle Deane is not totally without the sound of birds. Small finches do not seem averse to attracting attention by their calls, and even sing much later ...

... Nature Notes FROM a distance the avenue of hawthorns had an attractive orange glow about it. path as being unique. In many places the tall hawthorns met overhead. pro• ducing a tunnel effect, and if one stood at one end of the path the two lines of trees ...

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... Nature Notes AUTUMN tints seldom endure longer than they have done this year, and all who care should be grateful that we live in a town which is far from treeless. Yet trees are only really found In two types of locality around Heywood; estates that ...

... NATURE NOTES IF THE local moors do not abound in bird life at this time of year, at least the Pennine reservoir. are of some attraction. Duck of a variet:,. of species are attracted to these high waters. but without doubt the most welcome Ail tor in our ...

... Nature notes The old year ended with green woodpacker, a woodcock, several parties of siskins, and foraging cole tits in Haigh Country Park. At Worthington Lakes, RSPB member T. Morton watched two kingfishers with more than 550 gulls and a few more parties ...

... Nature ‘Notes Early February's bitter winds knifed across Rivington and brought snow to the Douglas Valley: only small amounts compared with West Yorkshire and Derbyshire. g TP The hard weather, however, did not put an end to the daily song of the familiar ...

... Nature Notes A pair of red squirrels have been seen in a local wood, and the Wildlife Warden at Haigh Country Park, Graham Workman, tells me that up tp three pairs of wood warblers have nested in the Park. Five pairs of great crested grebes have bred ...

... Nature Notes WIGAN OBSERVER, Thursday, July 31, 1986 7 Recently a starling was found shot dead in Wrightington. The ring on its leg was given to Hindley Ringing Team Leader, Ray Yates. A final message has now arrived through the official channels to reveal ...

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... Nature Notes was thickly fringed with seeding persicaria (redleg), one of the tree sparrow's main attractions. In snowy weather last January an R.S.P.B. member estimated there were 150 with approximately 200 skylarks and 85 yellow-hammers at a paricular ...