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... NATURE NOTE GERALD PONTING a range of ages. Fragments of bone from a large whale probably came from the animal cast up on the shore — as happened at Barvas not so many years ago. The few pieces of deer bones suggest hunting, but the antlers found at the ...

... An Ceitean Samhna Sir, — Your Bragar correspondent, in a charming nature note, speaks of *“An Ceitean Samhna’, a warm spell following on Hallowe'en, and wonders “if somebody has recorded these seasonal weather names'. In that treasure-trove, Father Allan’'s ...

... FROGS AND TOADS One of those incdents occurred the other day, similar to the kind which often sparks off a Nature Note. A friend brought me a creature in the hope that I mi~ht be able to identify it. Such f2ith is touching and I was glad to be able to ...

... NATURE NOTES NATURE NOTES OF BUTTERFLIES AND BIRDS The French call it “L'Aurore’ or ‘‘Dawn’ for the lovely flush of orange on its upper wings. In English it is known, more prosaically, as Orange Tip. Many of these little butterflies fluttered over the ...

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... NATURE NOTES NATURE NOTES THE ISLAND MEADOW On “‘the 29th of May, at six in the Afternoon. 1697. the wind at S .E.. Martin Martin embarked for St Kilda from the little beach on Ensay in the Sound of Harris.’ Two hundred and eighty years later, almost ...

... . NATURE NOTES NATURE NOTES TOLSTA HEAD An ambition was realised today when | walked out to Tolsta Head from North Tolsta. Not an overweening ambition you might say for it entails a walk of only a mile and a half over more or less level ground, but the ...

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... NATURE NOTES The flowering plants of this island in spring are an outstanding feature and my first contact with them was painful and not easily forgotten. We had gone for a walk up the Boquer Valley behind the town of Puerto Pollensa where we were staying ...

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... NATURE NOTES BASKING Sharks were once quite common in the Minch where their iarge dorsal fins were conspicuous in all but rough seas. Nowadays one scarcely ever hears of one being seen there and the recent stranding in Broadbay is all the more remarkable ...