... Nature Note Heather was extensively damaged by the ! heather beetle in Kintyre in certain years, writes “D.M.” in the Nature Notes column ! of the “Scotsman”. Flocks of brown | starlings, comprising many young birds and a few old starlings, moved to the ...

... NATURE NOTE Watcher Bird (AVIS, CALLA INGLESI] HABITS By observation, is seen to er in flocks. These vary in nur considerably as does the per tage of male to female, PLUMAGE Very varied, from brown gray; on occasion the upper is of a bright colour in ...

... NaTure NOTE. May is a busy month in bird-land. Robins, tits, and chaffinches are wearing their gayest plumage. Every hour of the day is ocenpied in nest-building. Early builders such as crows, blackbirds, thrushes and sparrows, are busy attending to the ...

... NATURE NOTE& Oar backward and c«nip#*n.«at#yi far' with verdant \njfnst. It mipht be n« moro than loafv the wood- and fields. Tl»e tinge rrn brown occasioned the scorchme sun rays lacking, and dusty roads or whitened hedgerown are much memory a» tnc arrival ...

... NATURE NOTE The Torrey Canyon disaster is now little more than a bad memory, even to the people involved in the cleaning up of the thousands of tons of crude oil which smothered so much of the beaches of Devon and Cornwall. In Shetland we are fortunately ...

... Nature Note. The early bird was prowling round tile garden, inserting its into every nook and cranny it could see. It was a (Lsgusted early laird, a disillus.oned early bird. Any luck? I asked. It turned to me with a gesture of disgust. Not a scrap ...

... NATURE NOTE In case anyone has any doubts about Spring being here, they might be interested to learn that not one, but two, larks were seen and heard singing around the Forfar Loch on Sunday forenoon. P.S.—And it's not the first time we have heard of ...

... Nature Note A number of Goldfinches have been seen regularly during the past week or two feeding amongst withered thistles at Hindhousefield. On Sunday four birds, two cocks and two hens, fed for quite a time opposite Howden Drive, and the fine colourings ...

... Nature Note Litter disfigures the countryside and can be a danger to all animals. Picknickers, mostly, annually throw down about a million bottles, mainly milk bottles. These are a death trap to small animals who go in to explore and cannot return up ...

... NATURE NOTE. Sea-shore Life in Orkney Islands References to Orkney are hy no means numerous in scientific monographs on British niarine zoology, whereas in such books Shetland is frequently mentioned as a locality where certain rare crustacea and zoophites ...

... NATURE NOTE THE MIGRATIONS OP THE SONG THRESH . Ik a recent Nature Note a correspondent raised the question of the migration of the thrush , stating that only a few of the . species remain in winter in Aberdeenshiro , ' while the blackbirds make no ...

... NATURE NOTE FAvoumns nesting tbees . The two main factors which influence a [ tth nesting bird in tho selection of a site for its dm are suitablo staging and adequate- conceal ^ Few trees provide both of these requisites , a J it 'is natural , therefore ...