... Nature Notes = 5 tops and church spires of Leslie and Markinch, | shall be able to convince myself that it is summer, no matter how cold it remains. ...

... R NATURE NOTES Swannlng ) was dissppointed that the 3t the junction by the old Colbirds were not there, at the lessie Primary School to : time of my visit at least, but| Photograph the clusters of sence of a mute swan and its ing the monkey puzzie tree ...

... h NATURE NOTES evening to the musical WOOdIa nd accompaniment of our resi-dent bird population, with d : I the melog vus tune of black'Sp ay birds dorinating the harsher notes of wren, the tinkling of ALTHOUGH we stay on the m and the rattle of chaf edg® ...

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... Tom Gray’s Nature Notes IN spite of the weather forecast, the sun appeared strong enough through a thin layer of cloud to cheer the group assembled to celebrate Saturday’s official opening of Barnyards Marsh in the East Neuk. Scottish Wildlife Trust as ...

... Tom Gray’s Nature Notes THE gateway to Falkland Estate was overhung by the flowering candles of horse chestnutas|wentin at the weekend and, as elsewhere in the neighbourhood, the hawthorn bushes by the roadside were covered in sprays of white May blossom ...

... Nature Notes by Tom Gray it is all of seven years since | saw waxwings in Glenrothes, and a long time since those wintry days during the seventies when they were present annually in Glenrothes to make us the waxwing capital of Scotland. If you do come ...

... Nature Notes by Tom Gray Butterflies still in short supply When | first came to Fife, some 15 years ago, | soon heard rumours of the alleged presence of a colony of small pearlbordered fritillary butterflies at Star Moss. need a moist habitat as well ...

... Tom Gray’s Nature Notes BY Sunday the visiting night heron had moved on from the pond in the Town Park which it had tenanted for a full two weeks. Itis being replaced as a focus of ornithological interest by the presence of more typical summer visitors ...

... Tom Gray’s Nature Notes THE cold blast of snow-laden winds had returned at the beginning of this week. On reaching the edge of the land we followed a solitary walker southwards for some distance along the coastal path that leads to Kingsbarns and Crail ...

... NATURE NOTES Following the Picts with camera, binoculars and picnic, | fumbled on the doorstep with a key and eventually got in on time to answer it. s 3 I was glad that | responded. ON SUNDAY, inspiredby a For it was Arthur- Loughrey newly published ...

... Tom Gray’s Nature Notes WITH the trees now greening up quite rapidly and the first family of ducklings to be seen in the Town Park, we can take it that summer will have begun when the first of the swifts scream in from Africa over the next few days. They ...