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... 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 ...
... Nature Notes I REALLY enjoy old books about wildlife some of the facts are now unbelievable and especially early books from the late 1700's. This week I read about one book I would love to own just for its title. The book was written in 1658 by Edward ...
... Nature Notes | IT had just started to snow as a flock of a couple of hundred gulls dropped on to Pennington Flash. Earlier in the week an Iceland gull and a Glaucous gull showed that birds were dropping in from all over the North West - there at the same ...
... Nature Notes IT was minus six degrees centigrade when I left the cottage. The woodlands had been painted by frost and the freezing fog was still low on the ground. I wasn't expecting to see much, it was more of an early morning wander than a birdwalk ...
... Nature Notes I'VE HAD loads and loads of paperwork to get through this week which means stuck to my office chair with my head down. Luckily. I've had a distraction in the form of a pair of swans who have decided that spring has sprung despite the Arctic ...
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... Nature Notes After heavy overnight rain I watched a party of seven snipe spring up from a flooded field and zig-zag rapidly and low across a busy minor road. Snipe travel great distances west and south as their northern breeding grounds become frost and ...
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... Nature Notes EVERYDAY I'm expecting to hear my first chuffchaff or willow warbler but haven't done yet. The cold east winds have probably ‘chilled’ them down and they have stayed put in warmer climes for a while. Our resident birds are well on the way ...
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... Nature Notes I MUST apologise to the hundreds of people who. over the last couple of weeks, have felt the ‘Wrath of Wasps My remark about wasps not being a proolem at this time of year has been hit on the head with this weather. From all our countryside ...
... Nature Notes% THE older I get the more soluble the imperial carcass becomes and it was with this in mind that I made a dash back for the cottage before the deluge began - or so I hoped! The afternoon was bright and the first of our daffodils nodding their ...