... NATURE NOTES In the Riw.on and Wavertou locality by there was a rather unusual sigh: one dull morning in the third week September, when a flock of some forty or fifty small birds were seen feeding cn an cal s:ubb!c near ta. They were cn the shy side, ...

... NATURE NOTES The first house martins were seen in the vicinity of Wavertcn Church on May 23rd. but it is understood that a few days previously their presence was suspected in the locality without being positively confirmed. Th swift fairly consistent ...

... NATURE NOTES It Is quit* common to see the bursting bud, on bushes, which have not yet lost all their winter berries. Some few pear trees appeared ready to open out early as the middle of February. Many herbaceous plant* including various kinds of primroses ...

... NATURE NOTES FOR By the end of the month the latest hatches of the martin and swallow species had occome sufficlenth s,rons on the wing to enable them to accotnpany the parent birds on theft lona night to the wanner climice 01 Africa. but many of them ...

... NATURE NOTES A heavy corn harvest is being gathered threugheut the district, and carrying has been going cn until ckse upon black-out lime, when things are frequently at their driest during the summer-time extension being oiten impissibie 10 start work ...

... NATURE NOTES The term “Leafy June has certainly been merited this year, the foliage everywhere has been dense and the variations in the tints from the young oaks to the elms have been pronounced Noticeable on the roadside fences in the early mornings ...

... NATURE NOTES March gave one very warm day, the 17th, when the maximum shade temperature rose to C 2 degrees. This figure has only been equalled once in this month during the pest ten years. Flowers of all kinds are now seen all over the countryside, and ...

... NATURE NOTES. A great number of plovers or peewits have settled on the Roodce for the first time for many years, and they seem to be quite happy. The peewit one of the most beneficial birds to farmers, and protected throughout the whole year. A pair of ...

... NATURE NOTES * November did not present any new features in the v.a> migratory birds and on several days Visibility was tar Irum good, rendering observation difficult. Thus has been somewhat increased the summer-iiqie extension to very dark mornings when ...

... NATURE NOTES For some reason there was a very evident absence ol many of our common residentiary species ol birds and about the garden during December, and probably the only sound to oe heard would that the robin or the startled call of a blackbird if ...

... NATURE NOTES Many gardens already shew signs of rather premature growths the way of wallflowers and various primroses, etc. Bulba of all kinds are purtUng their way through the soil regardless of the season, and not long after Christmas an almond blossom ...

... NATURE NOTES ♦ to the middle of this month no BU'umn migratory birds have been seen In the locally, whereas last year had flocks field fares making short stay their lengthy journey as early as October 29th. Thj song thrush has singing on several mornings ...