... NATURE NOTES He has become somewhat knowledgeable. about wild-life, but the other day -he ‘was stumped, and brought a little creatufe for me to see. It was a ‘house cricket, Gryllulus domesticus,” a specimen of which I had hot seen for many years. He'had ...

... NATURE NOTES * weswsen snsansssannanns ¥ months. It was this plant that first made me aware of the great number of geraniums that can be found growing wild' in Britain. Later I met someone who had devoted a section of his garden to wild geraniums—arranging ...

... NATURE NOTES A small sandy cliff on a river's edge has some sandmartin's holes in it, used by those birds during their summer stay with us. It is stated by some authorities that the natterjack toad will climb to these holes to hibernate, and 1 had often ...

... NATURE NOTES Three quite different birds are often mistaken for guillemots. The guillemot itself has a narrow pointed beak, but the razorbill (A), and the puffin (B), are shown in the drawing Al] three birds appear black above and white below, though ...

... NATURE NOTES TIMeTo ' SPAREG I in the busy new As one of the fish turned I saw two small barbles point- ing down from the corners of its mouth, and realised .that this was a shoal of gudgeon. The slightly head-down posi- tion of the fish should have ...

... NATURE NOTES As I watched it the arrowshaped ‘wake turned towards my side of the river, just a litlie ahead of me; but before it reached the bank it faded out, as if the creature causing the wake had dived deeper, I moved quietly towards the spot. and ...

... NATURE NOTES Very little is known about it, but the few snippets of knowledge do not make it any easier to locate. To start with it is usually found only in ponds that dry out at times, and presumably this includes those that are shallow, and recede from ...

... NATURE NOTES This was not surprising, for this was a short-tailed Vole he had, and it required a diet of grassstalks, roots, clover and other vegetable materials. The difference between true mice and the voles lies in a number of things. The face of ...

... NATURE NOTES That they will move, however, was made clear to me on a hillside the other day. Right below my feet occurred an explosion of sorts, and a hare was immediately darting at an angle up the hifi’. Evidently my next step would have landed right ...

... NATURE NOTES Nearly half the flowers I saw had a hole near the base, and in some cases the hole was old and quite wide, with white edges. There were a few flowers that had obviously new holes in them, and it seemed that the process was still going on ...

... NATURE NOTES three classes: green, red and brown. The last of these contains the langest plants, and some of them are far larger than a ‘man.” The bulb-rooted laminaria has a great flag of a front, which is split at the ...

... NATURE NOTES On this occasion I was lucky, and saw the bird for some time. It was, as I suspected, a Great Spotted Woodpecker, and by 'the bright red fatch on the nape of its neck saw that it was a male. It first drew my attention by its brightly contrasted ...