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... NATURE NOTE. The following have appealed in the York hi re Observer “Out of doors column, and represent local observation: Amongst the many disappointments which come the way bud lovers, moat observers, eoon or late, get compensation in a day remarkable ...
... NATURE NOTE By “Millway.” It Is said that the birds which are energetic in dust-bathmg seldom bathe in water, and it has been supposed that the reason why eating a skylark makes a cat, sick is that the bird never bathes in i water. But I have known poaching ...
... NATURE NOTE& 4 HUNGRY BIRO. An official record ot the achievement of sa crow in captivity shows that in a singh. day the bird devoured one-fourth ot its weighs in minnows. That is much as if • Joao ate forty pounds of cod within :34 hours. STRANGE REED ...
... nature note. A Hebden Bridge writer in the Yorkshire Obeerrer, etUet: “The migrant woodland birda hare again flown qniatlg awan In the pine plantatlona, bowerer, the ahrUl, high-pitched notea the golden-erested wren an more noticeable, and prove that ...
... NATURE NOTE. As yet, writes Mr. 6. Banks, Portsmouth, have not had much spring weather. To-day March in its bitterest mood giving cold seat winds, which bring hurried winga, storms of powdery snow that chill one to the bona. Notwithstanding the hard weather ...
... Nature Note ON the outskirts of Hull, according to report, a motorist spotted two large wild animals with ruffled fur round their necks. Police inquiries revealed that they were Irish 'wolfhounds. Not, as might have been supposed, a couple of spivs ...
... NATURE NOTE. Mr. S. Banks, Portsmouth, writes: With spring-like weather Nature every hand is rejoicing. Bright sunshine has great influence upon men, seen by their presence in the fields and by-ways as if listening to and enjoying the happy song birds ...
... Nature Note - Hibernate is a big word. Let's see what the dictionary has to say about it: To pass the season of winter in sleep or I torpor, as some animals. Tne bats in the ° belfry, and the snakes in the grass are all asleep just now. The bats are ...
... nature note. The trees (writes Mr, S, Banks, Portsmouth) are nearing their beat, while the wild fiowem ana ferns are developing in marvellous fashion, 1 was delighted in Hard castle Crags Saturday to see everything so lovely. I saw the first red campion ...
... NATURE NOTE. A Dover newspaper recently contained the following plrlgrn,Kxe:-—A very fine specimen of a water otter was caught on the slope at the root of the Fastern Arm this week by one of the workmen. It is being kept in a tub near the sceme of its ...
... NATURE NOTE Over King’s Mill a day or two ago saw a kestrel capture a small bird, but the fading light I could not make out species. There was an excited chal of two bluebirds, and the shrii warning notes of missel thrushes as th suddenly left the hedge ...
... Nature Note When chill December freezes the pond and hardens the earth, many wild creatures go without food, and some of them die of hunger. There is no fishing for the heron; the ice resists the tapping of his strong beak. The sparrow's larder is frozen; ...