... Nature Notes 1 WAS driving home from a meeting at Pennington Flash with the N.R.H. the other night and saw a superb sight. The mist was lving low over the road and the moon was nearly full when over the hedge a trio of barn owls appeared as bv magic. ...

... - Nature Notes As some of the last winter goldeneye were observed in a North West estuary and on Wigan’s Scotman’s Flash on a delightful Spring day, there was some evidence that the first of our “summer” birds had already arrived in Lancashire. We heard ...

... 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 ...

... Nature Notes Finally a singing chiff chaff to prove that it's spring! I've been expecting one for weeks and it turned up last week in the cottage garden chiff chaffing away as part of the dawn chorus at six am. It appears that most things are two to three ...

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... Nature Notes Early in the 19th Century, ruffs nested regularly at Martin Mere (before final drainage). Eggs were taken from a nest there in 1910, which proved to be the Ist British nesting record for 53 years. ’ In 1963 it began to breed again in the ...

... Nature Notes THE winds of the last flocks of blue, great and few days have shook off coal tits. what few remaining I found some massive leaves still clung to the birch bracket fungi on a trees around the cottage. tatty birch tree - prob- It's amazing ...

... nature notes WHAT a swiz! The cockspur thorn trees by the side of the cottage that usually turn the colours of the rainbow and provide a burst of colour on dull and dismal days are leafless! can now walk the path during a torrential downpour without ...

... 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 covered in ‘warts’. Toads’ legs tend to be shorter and less powerful than those of frogs, so toads appear to walk or amble where the frog mainly jumps or hops. I found some amazing facts about toads, for example many hospitals used to keep ...

... Nature Notes D%hm weather of mid- r a pair of mallard were on the river below Brock Mill Lane, and in the cold, grey mist of early morining a grey sglmnel moved rapidly throuth the frost-covered grasses and medge down to the water’s Earlier, three more ...

... Nature Notes WINTER is probably, no definitely, my favourite season of the year. Without getting into too much purple prose, it is a time when the land sleeps, a quiet introspective time when only a few people are out and about in the countryside. Yet ...