... NATURE NOTES. In a meadow adjoining Roughton Hall, a partridge made her nest in a siight depression of the surface. The meadow was, in due course, mown, the mower .passing his scythe over her without injuring her, and unaware of her presence, the depression ...

... Nature notes by Anthony Wootton exotic-looking waxe Clearly, birds have a much more difficult time of it during the depths of winter, insect eaters in particular either having to seek very much more assiduously or change their diet to some extent. Long ...

... NATURE NOTES by Anthony Wootton down all the faster as the cold intensifies, just to keep them from freezing solid. This acts as a sort of warning signal and actually wakes them up, prompting them to go in search of more sheltered accommodation or a snack ...

... Nature Notes by ANTHONY WOOTTON public image | have never been able to decide. After all, only a small proportion of the worlds 2700 or so species have venom glands at all and Britain's only poisonous snake, the adder or viper, is shy and unaggressive ...

... ‘ -I/‘l. Z !' | Nature notes ANYONE who has watched badger or fox cubs playing outside their den entrance will know what a delightful experience it is. Intent, principally, on fun, which includes much boisterous sparring between brother and sister, they ...

... Nature notes s, AnTHONY WOOTTON Where do flies go in winter? “WHERE do flies go in winter-time?”’ may be something of a nusichall question but it is one that even seasoned entomologists may find themselves at a loss to answer in any very passing into ...

... | MY I N 2 0 T 82784 Nature notes by ANTHONY WOOTTON lamp that shines at night’) and to everyone else as the glow-worm. haprens, she extinguishes her light and the pair retire to connubial bliss. That an insect should be able to produce light at all is ...

... country’s leading naturalists, W D Campbell, has died aged 89. Known to his friends as Bill, Mr Campbell, who wrote the weekly nature notes for The Guardian and published several books, died at his home in Charlbury, Oxfordshire. ...

... (1989) Burt Reynolds in Bill Forsyth’s comedy about a safecracker and his apprentice. 11.50 THE SEXUAL IMPERATIVE More nature notes. 12.50 FILM: MICHAEL SHAYNE, PRIVATE DETECTIVE (1936) Lloyd Nolan is a wisecracking private eye. 2.15 THE OTHER AMERICAS ...

... STRICTLY FOR THE BIRDS Nature notes do not usually find their way into these columns, but | was amused during the recent cold spell by the birds outside my kitchen windows. I made a tactical error in throwing whole slices of bread out of the door, instead ...

... —Nature notes— By Anthony Wootton SUMMER begins to shade into autumn and suddenly the garden is full of spiders! Webs of all shapes and sizes festoon hedge, flower stem and garden shed, rendered all the more conspicious if you rise early enough to see ...

... damages, so to avoid this, the parents of selected patients must give their consent to the motor-car trips A writer in “Nature Notes” states that there are unusual numbers of gadwall on the waters at Euston this spring—quite 150. This is curious, for in ...