... NATURE NOTE Lapwings and Larks Wwarm sunshine of the eek-end brought increased activity in the bird world. As I walked across the meadows I saw the nuptial flights of the lapwing, always an g e xc iting y p r e e w i n ir he c p n in h o l f en he their ...

... NATURE NOTE Passers-By THESE autumn days are full of Interest to the blrd-watcber tba Trent Valley. Every day Mrds panace are dropping into the toaaocky Helds and weed - grow n fallows and the food-providing lands Stoke Bardolph. Some move on almost ...

... NATURE NOTE Heralds of DURING mid-winter the orchard was a dreary place of grey trunks and naked boughs with only a few notes of robin's song and an odd note from a crotchety old blackbird. But yesterday, a pair of mistlethrushes broke flock and returned ...

... Nature Note The Chaffinch’s Beautiful Nest CiLOSKR scrutiny «f what 1 appeared a knot In the fork of the old mossy, grey-barked apple tree, proved It to be the nest of the chaqinch. tn Blrdland architecture there Is nothing more beautiful than the shllfa’s ...

... NATURE NOTE Siskins Fthe grey of dutl winter’s day the of bright colours attracted the a.ienUon as one loitered by Hie (tanks of the Dover Beck below Lowdiiara Mill. A closer view revealed the goldbanded wings, green and yellow rumps of siskins In the ...

... Nature Note Autumn Lane TN the narrow lane leading to the old grey church trees and hedgerows are richly ■nshed with the last touches of summer’s paintbrush, toned down with the tints of brown and bleached straws and stems of the nmbelllferons plants ...

... Nature Note Full Summer TN July full summer Is us, A- and Nature's (rand procession of wonders and Interesting sights rolls by, thouih even these long days are all too short and fleeting. There ranch splendour to be enjoyed ; poetry in the dappled skies ...

... NATURE NOTE. NMI MIT The whistling moth la. Net. Th era is • glow spar* erred witk ridges. By etriliog ridges with its mammy. Yu. moth is to pee- Om wbistliag ...

... NATURE NOTE LURED out by the fitful Funshine of the early year, the modest bud of the lesser grubwort can be seen peering through the dead leaves in the lane, while the little agaricus campestris may (or 'pay not) be spotted peeping nervously round the ...

... NATURE NOTE In The Lane PLEASANT the old Une in late summer when the last of the harebells are their (airyllke cnps In the wind. On the banks the brlfht yellow stars of the hawkweed and the rich purple of the knapweed make comrastlnf colour acainst the ...

... Nature Note March Surprises rpHOUOH recorrlnf each year, J- many objecte that (net our eyee, when aleld by hedgerow and copee. come alwaye ae •nrprlee. The Hidden bntterty that flatten oyer the aconites and early celandines, on a raaay afternoon; usually ...

... NATURE NOTE Winter Quarters ONE could list an Interesting raUlogue of the many species of birds making the Trent Valley below Nottingham their winter haunts. Around the stanks sheets water like miniature lagoons—un the sewage farm curlew feed, and yon ...