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NATURE NOTES

... NATURE NOTES Sea fishing In my article last Saturday I referred to the feast the gulls had after a demolition charge had been fired at Connor’s Point. Bangor, to disintegrate an old wreck. This week it is my intention to describe the legitimate catching ...

Published: Saturday 25 November 1950
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 827 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

NATURE NOTES

... NATURE NOTES FOR BENEFITS RECEIVED. Surgical Speculation and Bird Injuries. THIS WEATHER! What will St. Swithin for us this year? A few moments ago we heard a weather report as dismal as dismal could be, but surely it cannot rain much more, and there ...

Published: Saturday 16 July 1938
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 294 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

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... NATURE NOTES Looking back (continued) nie threat to our coal supplies by labour troubles at some of the cross-channel ports leads one to think of alternative fuels, and naturally peat comes first to mind. Of this fuel I wrote three years ago: Turf for ...

Published: Saturday 02 April 1955
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 357 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

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... NATURE NOTES. bird life at the waterwob A visit to the public pond of the uterworks, Antrim Road, is always mg' this season of the \ear, as Teal. Seagull, Mallard, Cormorant, and are to be seen there. The Teals are v ...

Published: Monday 31 January 1921
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 788 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Nature Notes

... Nature Notes. Tour correspondent from Bundoran will find Hermit Crabs plentiful on the shore at Bundoran. Perhaps it is out of place to open old subject, but I read recently in a Canadian paper that the juice of the nettle is used green dye, also “nettle ...

Published: Saturday 06 November 1915
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 343 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

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Published: Friday 10 May 1935
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 2 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

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Published: Saturday 03 August 1935
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 2 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

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Published: Friday 08 May 1936
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 2 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

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... NATURE NOTES. DEPREDATIONS OF GREENFLY. Attacks on Plant Life in Gardens. IRISH PEAT BOGS. The remark has been made—” only could extirpate the greenfly what gardens we would have ’’—and there is a good deal truth in it. These little creatures are terrors; ...

Published: Friday 04 June 1937
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 325 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

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... NATURE NOTES Rare birds (Continued) I am Including the crane In my list rarities this week, and he Is Indeed rara avis, having not been reported In Ireland for fifteen years. But he was not always scarce In this Island, for Giraldus Cambrensls (Gerald ...

Published: Saturday 29 January 1955
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 355 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Nature notes

... Nature notes Here's a gknme those of you who lke trees and flowers might care to try. Collect a variety of tree leaves and flowers and sellotape them to a large sheet of paper. Number each specimen on the paper then make a sketch of it and try to identify ...

Published: Wednesday 17 November 1982
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 104 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

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... NATURE NOTES. ARRIVAL OF FIRST MIGRANT BIRD. Naturalists’ Field Club History. THE BROWN LIZARD. Here we are actually spring, and even before It officially commenced the llrst migrant bird was reported. This Is the Chiffchaff, noted by Dr. G. M. MacLaughlin ...

Published: Thursday 24 March 1938
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 388 | Page: 13 | Tags: none