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... 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

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... NATURE NOTES, COAST WILDFOWL. Wildfowl are reported to be numerous along the Essex, Kentish, Norfolk, and Suffolk coasts, where excellent feeding grounds are obtainable in the estuaries and creeks of the Thames, Blackwater, Deben, Crouch, Tare, Stour ...

Published: Thursday 14 January 1904
Newspaper: Tyrone Courier
County: Tyrone, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 62 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

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... NATURE NOTES. AM UNDESIRABLE ALIEN. A live locust, two inches long, with blown wing covers marked with black, baa been caught in Leeds market. ...

Published: Thursday 16 February 1905
Newspaper: Tyrone Courier
County: Tyrone, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 24 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

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... NATURE NOTES. 4 am fo* aumiEit. Oh! for oae those good, oM-bsUona* rammers (sighs writer is tin “Westminster Gazette”) to put new spirit in us. when flowers and fruit os their proper seasons and not six weeks lata—if at all: when Britain craw her own ...

Published: Thursday 20 August 1903
Newspaper: Tyrone Courier
County: Tyrone, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 208 | Page: 7 | 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 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. MUMMY WHEAT. Many people still believe, as did the ancient Egyptians, that wheat thousands years old germinate if sown. Experiments have been conducted Kew Gardens with what is known “mummy wheat” —that is, wheat found the cases of ancient ...

Published: Thursday 03 November 1904
Newspaper: Tyrone Courier
County: Tyrone, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 302 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

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Published: Saturday 26 July 1952
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 4 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

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... 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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... 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

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... NATURE NOTES. Ms Tss-Tim. The most terrible scourge of Africa at the present moment is the sleeping sickness, whitt is conveyed to man by the tse-tse y. and vet up to quite a recent date man was consiaered immune from the attacks of this poisonous pest ...