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... NATURE NOTES Golden plover are conservative transfigured them into sparkling silver. Long after the lapwings had come to earth the golden plover planed down and settled amid a flurry of twinkling wings. A few days after our visit to Fife Ness a local ...
... NATURE NOTES Rare visitors to Shetland lAN MACALISTER THE BORDERS AND STRATHSPEY ,\suwuumunmmum “™ And true devetion to a wise beloved, Meeting the faded, aging counterpart Of one whose fresh young loveliness once moved His boyish senses to wild ecstasies ...
... NATURE NOTES Returning an eagle to freedom of a shooting-brake. It was with some considerable effort that I avoided the talons and I was glad when the twomile journey was over. As we were undoing the thong, two buzzards soared over us. A larger bird arrived ...
... NATURE NOTES The Long-eared Owl in Orkney as +« rt of place owls. with Most people think of Orkn ireeless countv. n that would tion of Shorteared Owl Acuull{ this 1S there are a few small planta tions and CooTese Q Lont occasionally arbour nesting S as ...
... NATURE NOTES Black-headed gull’s “leg-pull” ...
... NATURE NOTES Waste ground delicacy Each year in early autumn the bare Mushrooms and other fungi ripen waste ground near the rubbish tip at their spores over the whole surface of the west end of the dunes at St the expanded cap, but most of the Andrews ...
... NATURE NOTES Late gannet chicks m:tucn !l‘nu;‘recurtg)act fabcet that, vhfnu! Some very late eggs do not hatch 2mm ‘3 not ofiau to be seen Bass Rock in ober is devoid o i in the immediate ne rguillemots, razorbills, puffins, Kitt- met coics taree 13 ceh ...
... By W. K. Holmes NATURE NOTES Page seven Lloyd George (left) * made an inflammatory speech at Huddersfield and Winston Churchill (right) speaking at Bradford, accepted on behalf of the Government whatever challenge Ulster might throw down.” of the 3rd ...
... NATURE NOTES A. M. RAMSAY “MEIN KIND, WIR WAREN KINDER” (From Heine's “Buch der Lieder”) ‘IY bairn, when we were hairnies, “* Twa bairnies blythe an’ gay, We cruppit intae the hen-hoose An’ hid aneath the strae. We crawed like twa bit cockies Wi’ “ ...
... NATURE NOTES Golden Eagles on Highland the Southern fringe A few miles from my own door siep here in Strathallan, this eagle ranges over the rolling foot hills in quest of blue hare and red grouse, practically every autumn and winter, sometimes into summer ...
... | NATURE NOTES LITTLE GULLS IN FIFE A warm July evening found us at the water’s edge surveying the birds on Kilconquhar Loch. A young American of Scottish parentage with a thorough knowledge of our birds stood beside me and expressed delight at the number ...
... NATURE NOTES Hide-and-seek with a stoat David Stephen’s recent remarks on the stoat’s habit of caching food reminded me of one of these urgent little animals that had his headquarters about our garden for a while. property about from cache to cache and ...