... NATURE NOTE MOMENT OF TERROR O NE can can sometimes go for Then without warning the miles along that part of the whole bird community suddenly ancient Fosse Way which lies froze into silence. Even a flock between Brinklow and the of chaffinches feeding ...

... Nature Note Nature’s Diamonds THE non quickly paMe*-M •» the way of April showere; Again was sunlight, the while and bine of the sky, the green and gold of the meadow-the hnm bees returning their task of winning nectar from amongst thousand dowers. Everywhere ...

... Nature Note * * * Children In Court 11 1 there were a simple answer to the question of juvenile delnquencv it would have been put forward and acted upon long ago. It was hardly expected, therefore. that the panel of four who discussed this subject at ...

... NATURE NOTE. A remarkable illustration of Nature's wonderful protection of the defenceless is supplied by the case of the guillemot's gg. This bird usually lays its eggs on a ledge of rock or cliff, about one of the most unsafe places possible you would ...

... NATURE NOTE Heather grateful the euunlry-lover this lime of year that the glorious purple heather still nourishes In those parts of North Nottinghamshire, where onee the wild red deer roamed over the windy heathland. Happily, notwithstanding the eneroaehment ...

... NATURE NOTE The Sparrows were Guests at the Picnic HOUSE -SPARROWS are slipshod, untidy fellows at the best of Limes. but when it comes to nest-building they make a shocking mess of things. There's that unusual pair which regularly build in a spruce tree ...

... 'NATURE NOTE Redwings that Pass in the Night AT the going down of the for home while yet Wilt sun there Is sometimes was good and coats hung dry a lull In the wind and a upon their shoulders But not break lii the clouds us. A wring morn. warn summer afternoon ...

... NATURE NOTE Wasps AT part of summer those detested Insects, the yellowand-black (landed wasps are much In evidence. Few people love them most fear them; everybody *w'*ts them. They arc destroyed wholesale, hnt some naturalists and gardeners ask: “Should ...

... Nature Note * * * Scapegoats ONE of the unpleasantries of modern life is that many people nave to pay almost as much in rates as they do in income tax, a situation that should be expected to lead to much more interest in local government than has been ...

... NATURE NOTE DAISIES IN JANUARY CIE abnormal mildness of this month so far has brought many surprises out of doors. There are flowers on the blackberry bushes, odd blossoms lingering from last autumn, and the ragwort still bears a few yellow flowers These ...

... Nature Note Wild Rose Time Garlands of wild do* rosea drape the umbraoeous bowers with tholr delicate blu«h-ttnted flowers, gleamlnf onion* the brljht »reen sprays leaflets that trail In sheer abandon over the tall, luxuriant hed*erowo. One conld never ...

... NATURE NOTE A WAYSIDE POOL THEOctober sun was setting behind the distant trees as I came to the wayside pool. Mist was rising over the fields and on every hand was the sadness of autumn. On the far side of the pool stood four silver birches. now almost ...