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... Nature Notes Nature Notes Nature Notes LYING in bed the other morning we were listening to a couple of crows calling to each other in the woods. It was just before dawn and it reminded me of story told by the Inuits or Eskimos of how the “Crow brought ...
... nature notes nature notes natur It's starting! Only one or two at the moment but it's a promise of what's to come - 1 hope. The dawn chorus is being practiced by a blackbird and a wren with the occasional accompaniment of a mistle thrush and a robin all ...
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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 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 THE unexpected snowfall last week gave us something to talk about. The footprints on the lawn (or the large area of mowed moss and weeds that I call a lawn) left a good clue to a battle royal that had happened sometime during the night. The ...
... Nature Notes THE first green woodpecker call that I'd i‘ heard for ages in the woods heralded the worst electrical storm so far this year. The I bird lived up to its name of ‘Rain Bird alright | when not ten minutes after its call the heav- } ens opened; ...
... Nature Notes 1 RECEIVED a letter last week from a friend who's working in Kenya at the moment and he was asking about the weather - How's winter?' ; He then goes on to say how much he misses the English weather (Yeah, but then who doesn't when you are ...