... EFFECT ON ANIMAL COLOUR EXAMPLES IN HIGHLANDS TO THE EDITOR OF “THE SCOTSMAN Portmahomack, Fearn, June 9, 1951 Sir,—~The Nature Note from “A. M.” on “Climate and Animal Colour” in your issue of 9th June postulates the most interesting theory that the climatic ...

... This may have been an animal burial attempt In a recent Nature Note your correspondent “ W.K.H.” asks if any reader has actually seen animals burying their dead. I have witnessed what may have been an attempt at this. | We were having a lot of trouble ...

... Warbler and corncrake Some time ago I mentioned in a Nature Note that a grasshopper warbler had arrived on April 27 in the reedcovered marshy ground a little distance from our house in East Fife. I also mentioned that a corncrake had returned almost without ...

... line. I hadn’t been what seemed like minutes at the game (having acquired a bird book and a telescope and had my first nature note published /n a national news- GARDENING please keep the skin? They needeg: new one badly. Perhaps the most memorable country ...

... “Sheep and cattle seem Instinctively to know the value of seaweed as a nutritious food,” stated the writer of & recent “Nature Note.” Here a Shetland sheep wades into the sea apparently to select morsels of seaweed more —M;r;c—tlv;];aam; -nun readily available ...

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... Presumably on its way North to its breeding grounds, this bird is well behind the normal migration time as in a recent “Nature Note” K. W. referred to a pair sitting on two eggs at Fair Isle. As the skua flew slowly away into the distance we wondered whether ...

... Peewits versus Pheasant 24 Mid Street, Hopeman, Moray, June 7, 1954 9 Sir,~Further to “J. P.'s” Nature Note in your issue of June 5, I too was fortunate enough to witness such a fight, also near Comrie, about 1940. At that time I was a boy and had been ...

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... Martens in Argyll Two or three years ago, as I reported in a “ Nature Note™ at the time, I had the skin of a marten forwarded to me from Kilchrennan, on Loch Awe. Its captor wanted to know whether the animal was a cross between a fox and a wild cat. It ...

... PPN ‘ - ‘) 2 @ - p / . . . Y E L S i . £, e ; » > & N 2 . ¥ . ® i A 7 “Teddy,” the home-loving gull referred to in the Nature Note by W. A. R, rising from his perch outside the bedroom window. ...

... “ Rook Marauders ” Cheviot Place. Motherwell, . April 14, 19§2 Sir,—l was astonished to read in your issue of 12th a Nature Note by “R. I. M. in which he says that “ with brazen effrontery they (the rooks) began to pick for the seeds under the very nose ...