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NATURE NOTE

... NATURE NOTE Seen in garden on Leigh Hill, near Taunton. September 10th. small squirrel with grey back and tail, red paws and white 'shirt front': and on September 11th large adder, 18-20 inches long. U. M. Edmonds. ...

A Strange Robin

... A Strange Robin Nature Note I have recently seen a tiny about the of a wren. but n*/. having the upturned in general shape like robin. wit'a bark chequered dark brown I:?:* a hedge-sparrow's. and brlgi'i* rod breast like robin's. It appeared several time* ...

NOW I WITH

... NOW I WITH THIS week I start with a nature note, for I have made friends with a blackbird. Nothing strange about that, you may say. But for one who has always waged war on the birds, it is something of an event, Sitting in the garden on the fine, warm ...

Published: Friday 23 June 1967
Newspaper: Somerset Standard
County: Somerset, England
Type: | Words: 231 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Lent 1955 (1) IF

... week, shows us a picture, at the outset, of Christ being tempted to art in ways INCONSISTENT with His Divine and Human Nature. Note the subtle opening gambit of the devil. IF Thou be the Son of god. (St. Matt: IV. 3.. All through the incarnate life ...

Bavarian wonder

... all seem afraid of butterflies is it purely their size, or have they some smell or weapon of which we have no knowledge? NATURE NOTES by lan Rands While on holiday in Germany this month I saw a marvellous sight. It was in southern Bavaria only about forty ...

Published: Thursday 01 October 1987
Newspaper: Wells Journal
County: Somerset, England
Type: | Words: 517 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Low-flying swans pose a puzzle

... lings go to roost at night? I've been watching them over the last few evenings and should ilke to tell you about in a later Nature Note. ©lan Rands, 1988. ...

Published: Thursday 07 January 1988
Newspaper: Wells Journal
County: Somerset, England
Type: | Words: 504 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Changing Habits

... CHALLENGED Twice in an average lifetime have I been specially interested in the menu 'of the blackbird. Once, when writing nature note. I classed him with the ' thrush as a consumer of ; wcil of worms, and. of course, fruit. and was challenged on this [assertion ...

New swallow family

... New swallow family In an earlier Nature Note I told of my discovery of how a young swallow made his first scrambling and rather undignified entry into the world of flight. That first brood is now completely airworthy and delights in swooping and swerving ...

Published: Thursday 24 September 1987
Newspaper: Wells Journal
County: Somerset, England
Type: | Words: 617 | Page: 20 | Tags: none

CHINESE PIANIST CHARMED A BRIDGWATER AUDIENCE

... encore favourite Chopin piece was with exquisite charm. 1 e concert was arranged bv the Bridgwater Music C'ub EDWIN HIRST NATURE NOTE Signs of an 'Old- Fashioned' Winter ? A correspondant writes : After this lone 'old-fashioned' summer are we due for an ...

Fascinations of life in a

... Fascinations of life in a At last I've found one! Several weeks ago in an earlier Nature Note, I promised to try and find a heronry and tell you about it. Well, I was just about despairing of ever seeing one when my attention was suddenly drawn to seven ...

Published: Thursday 26 May 1988
Newspaper: Wells Journal
County: Somerset, England
Type: | Words: 675 | Page: 40 | Tags: none

HAVING A SENSE OF HUMOUR

... situations. Humour is solely characteristic af human beings; but from the human point of view much humour can be dound in Nature. Note the ,pathos of the face a ,giraffe, listen to the sound that comes from a duck's bill, or to the braying of an ass. Watch ...