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... NATURE NOTE Embattled oystercatchers 1 had always thought that oystercatchers were friendly birds—noisy but not much given to strife, but an incident witnessed recently caused me to change my mind. 1 was traversing the hilly parish of Towie, in Aberdeenshire ...
... NATURE NOTE THE GOLDEN HUNTER The golden eagle suddenly appeared in my view scarcely 30 yards away. A strong southerly wind was blowing and the eagle, sailing only a few feet above the ground had been closely examining a gentle grm;l slope tenanted by ...
... NATURE NOTE ZANY HEN HARRIER It was reported that a hen harrier had often been seen crossing the road dividing the machair of South Uist fmr:dmedmmmm island and an presented itself for reconnaissance of a probable breeding area. The modus operandi was ...
... NATURE NOTE February song of the dipper THEnflstebbedmdmdm mthemowyeom;c. buttg; was comparatively mild a the frozen waterfalls were thawing. No wind stirred, and the long, still pools of the small river mirrored the hills. The silence was suddenly broken ...
... Nature Note A RICH VARIETY During the holidays we found a rich variety of birdlife in Central Perthshire. It started in the garden. Almost daily we had a pair of bulifinches partaking of a morning repast on the seeds of purple toadflax growing in the ...
... NATURE NOTE A lucky youngster One of the young Gannets at present growing up on the Bass Rock is lucky to be alive. When about six weeks old, long before it could fly, it fell over 200 feet into the sea, splitting open its abdomen, possibly by striking ...
... NATURE NOTE FIELD OF THE LAPWINGS The quiet of the Sabbath evening was disturbed only by the occasiona bleat of a shaggy ewe as she called a proud her new ambs, and the plaintive cry of curlew as she carefully tended vlv hatched chicks who ran nimbly ...
... TRAVEL Sacha Carnegie round Russia Alison Thomson in East Lothian and NATURE NOTE CROSSWORDI RADIO AND TV .olcccosuconprensasrasse B WOMEN’'S PAGE s : ~ The trend of this ‘s hats “-»lmcnu-hnm'h&oheflum 6 ...
... Another hoopoe 36 Murrayfield Avenue, Edinburgh, September 19, 1964 Sir,—Having read the Nature Note today about the hoopoe, and a previous one about its appearance in Edinburgh, I should like to say that one spent several days on the Isle of Luing, in ...
... Another grounded swift 16 Botanic Crescent, Glasgow, June 17. 1963 Sir,—~With reference to your Nature Note on Saturday, * Grounded Swift,” the following incident may be of interest; it occurred in Perugia (Italy) in 1947. In the walls of that old Etruscan ...