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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 ...

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... 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 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 ...

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... 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; ...

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... 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 ...

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... Nature notes a ball in the dish seems to keep the ice away or a nightlight under a dish of water - not too close or you could end up with poached robin! The frost had turned the whole garden white - in fact it looked like we'd had a fall of snow. Marcus ...

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... Nature Notes Nature red in beak and claw was the first lesson the children learned. A recent hatch of mallard ducklings gave the children a close look to see if any food was in the offing - suddenly a grey heron landed in the water, snatched one of the ...

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... nature notes Forty eight species of owl to look at, and then at the end of the visit we watched flying barn owls and an eagle owl - the largest owl in the world - as you can imagine that impressed the children. I took some of them on an adder hunt one ...

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... Nature Notes THE weather had kept us indoors for the day so I decided to amuse Danielle by going through some old books to see what we could find. We decised a game with that brillianat book by W.B. Lockwood on the origins of British Bird Names. The ...