... Nature Notes One result of the phenomenal weather of the present year is now noticeable. seedlings of the common weeds have made their appearance not in thousand* but in millions. Their parent plants before they vanished, withered by the heat and drought ...

... NATURE NOTES An occasional visitor to this neighbourhood was picked up exhausted on Sunday. Oct. 17 ' on the road skirting the east side of Aberystwyth harbour. It was the Grey Phalarope. It was given every protection to enable it to revive, but it died ...

... NATURE NOTES The year 1950 is running on. We are now in the middle of the !eighth month, Our nesting !migrant birds came in the spring, and by this date most of them I have finished their labours and are now on their return journey to their winter quarters ...

... Nature Notes. %HMV I. Sandpiper ••• ••• 2tali. Tree Pipit 4111 •!..2nit. tilarLeap %pi 24111. Hoare Mortis— di, Slltg. Vaiihlir••• •do. all. ••• ••• Hiiitetliroat :kit. The I lieidivit it. 611.1 flower is tpril is gio, I.laultailarn Thr thiL Iwitna ...

... NATURE NOTES In the report of the National Parks Committee, published by the Stationery Office, it is recommended that the Cardigan coast be one of the 52 conservation areas dotted over England and Wales. These areas would not need the same close management ...

... Nature Notes. Seteral plants are about to bloom in the garden of Glynpadarn. Menhaden'. the reanienee of Mrs. Hugh Hughes. The is an interesting genus of the Lily family. and a native ot Southein States and Mexico. The ,hort stem hear. a rosette pointed ...

... Nature Notes In Nature's calendar -. the passing of Spring into Summer is marked by the Cuckoo becoming silent, and by the disappearance of the Orange-tipped Butterfly, no longer to be seen upon the wing. The Cuckoo was still calling upon the aist of ...

... NATURE NOTES. The introduction and spread of plants is at times most remarkable. Some consider that a plant is not a native unless its pedigree can be traced hack to pre- Roman days. SOMO very handsome wild flowers in our corn-lands are not indigenous ...

... NATURE NOTES. One of the first new hoohs of the New , s • islightful one by Mr. Edmund Seines. e.eitird The Romance of the Animal Wo I. end. nowilese to bay, a work by the author of Bird.Watchin't Is sure to attract the attention of all lovr. wilt-life ...

... Nature Notes Anyone living with a rookery close at hand may find much interest in the manifold activities of its noisy occupants. The Rook has a pliant tongue, and it is not difficult to recognise the various modulations of voice which express anger, ...

... Nature Notes , The Starling, whose vocal performance was described last week, is an energetic . . pushing and successful bird, as is shown by the great increase in its numbers in recent . years. In their relation to farm crops, Starlings were formerly ...

... Nature Notes. The .11ily sun made itself felt on the high. Imre ridge of Plynlimon, surely never more dry and arid than at the present time. The unusual warmth had tempted the white butterflies to wander thus far. Otherwise there was little life stirring ...