... CYRIL OLIVER, Bill Simm’s Nature Note in the issue of March 5, 1965, was devoted to the shrew. In this he stated: “It needs to eat at least four times its own weight in fresh meat every 36 hours and will die if kept without food for more than a few hours ...

... NATURE NOTES because of that nice, bushy tail, which was all that I saw of this animal. This squirrel was a grey one, and the tail was not so bushy when I saw it; but doubtless it would appear better if seen erected behind the animal's back when it sat ...

... NATURE NOTES After | stilling ‘the clamouring veices I had to take the side -of the enterprising youngster “who had recognised the green flowers for - what they really were ~ ‘green flowers. The other youngsters at once dived into the lane sides to find ...

... NATURE NOTES Then I tried some large rock pools that had been uncovered recently by the receding tide, In none of them could I find the creature I wanted; but I did find a different kind of star-fish, though. It was a Brittle Star, which was apparently ...

... NATURE NOTES fairly large was also making for the water, and I hurried over to intercept it. A crab with a shell about six inches lonf was scurrying from a shallow pool to catch up with the receding tide. The crab was somewhat circular, and had spines ...

... NATURE NOTES * 11.1111.1111.-..lllllllli’lllll’ .* quite remarkable .in such slow creatures. The ability of large ones when climbing: stone steps is' outstanding. The last one I found was very big, and was just ambling along a small pathway in a wood ...

... NATURE NOTES When quite a youngster I was always attracted to this large flower, 2} to 3 inches across, and was somewhat shocked at the distaste it aroused in some adults. Later I had a garden of my own where the smaller Convolvulus arvensis was a bad ...

... NATURE NOTES Limn& its head the heron shook the eel until its head was nearer the heron’s beak. Then suddenly the eel's head was inside the heron’s mouth, and being swallowed, The frantic movements of the eel culminated in a swift move that threw a coil ...

... NATURE NOTES yesnans 3 In some lights these colours are accentuated, and the bird n'p&earl to be almost as colourful as a kingfisher. 1 was watching one on a tree trunk. It had wedged a nut into a crack in the bark, and was hammering it from dif. ferent ...

... NATURE NOTES bearing on the matter, so one morning just ‘before dawn 1 took up position where 1 was hidden from both stream and ivy-clad stump, but. where I could watch what happened. It was fairly cold, but I had wrapped up-well, and the day bid fair ...

... NATURE NOTES He has become somewhat knowledgeable. about wild-life, but the other day -he ‘was stumped, and brought a little creatufe for me to see. It was a ‘house cricket, Gryllulus domesticus,” a specimen of which I had hot seen for many years. He'had ...

... NATURE NOTES * weswsen snsansssannanns ¥ months. It was this plant that first made me aware of the great number of geraniums that can be found growing wild' in Britain. Later I met someone who had devoted a section of his garden to wild geraniums—arranging ...