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... Nature Notes by v TOM GRA home a few pieces of spruce twigs which had a peculiar cone-like swelling along the shaft of the stem. This abnormal growth is adequately described by its name of Pineapple Gall and it is apparently caused by some distant relative ...
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... Nature Notes by TOM GRAY punctures made by the spiny twigs interwoven into its protective dome. Such an act today would not only be forgidden by law and conscience, but | should have a problem in hauling my 18 stone up into the slender swaying branches ...
... FACE OF Tom Gray’s Nature Notes RECENT weather conditions can make it difficult for wildlife. House martins were looking as if they had had a successful first half to their breeding season with well over 20 birds to be seen hawking insects above the house ...
... h NATURE NOTES Waxwing delight | MAKE no apology for continuing with the subject of waxwings this week again, for they have stayed with us to thrill many observers since they were first noticed in town nearly a fortnight APOLOGIES for the column’s omission ...
... Nature Notes by Tom Gray HERE AND THERE If I tell you that I am sitting in a garden under the shade odiepine trees, as | write, that re is a greenfinch singing on a branch overhead and that there is a small flock of crested tits flitting noisily through ...
... UT Tom Gray’s Nature Notes WITH the excitament ot September’'s many rare migrants now a distant memory, life has settled back into the normal static winter routine for the birdwatcher. | scan every berried tree in town, as | pass, for waxwings, but so ...
... Nature Notes — 7 TOM GRAY around in shallow intertidal pools probing for small snails and snipping off the exposed soft part of the snail’s body. These methods of sweeping aside seaweed and probing in pools are the preferred feeding techniques and if ...
... e e A NATURE NOTES Reservoir rituals | WAS recently tempted by the report of a rare bird to try out my still new telescope around one of the local reservoirs, and while | did not see the rare species | sought, we did have a rewarding family outing by ...
... Nature Notes byTom Gray GULL CHANGE 1f you look out on any large area of grassland or parkland, then at some time of day you'll surely see anything from a few individuals to a few hundreds of gulls searching out earthworms in the dew on the sunnier mornings ...
... Nature Notes by Tom Gray LISTEN TO THE TERNS There has been just enough sunshine recently to tempt the family to the coast and, for those of us in and around Glenrothes, there is plenty of sand to choose from among Fife’s ‘fringe of gold’. One of our ...
... NATURE NOTES by Tom Gray The purple season MOORLAND is about to be covered in a tide of purple heather to create the sort of views of the Scottish mountains and hills which best sell picture postcards. While the heather or ling has taken over from the ...