... NATURE NOTES THE First week of this, the fifth month of the year of 1990 will surely be remembered for the superb spell of real summer weather: sun blazing from a cloudless sky, temperatures up to the eighties in some parts, with just a gentle breeze ...

... Nature Notes FRASERBURGH Herald's Nature Correspondent, Mr Norman Fordyce, continues this week his May column. pair I have watched over the last two weeks chose a rather unusual and novel support for their collection of sticks and twigs - the arm of a ...

... Nature Notes THE really hard Winters experienced at the turn of the century were described in such graphic detail in the rich “Doric” of Central Aberdeenshire, by that Master of local poetry “Hamewith”, the late Charles Murray. It is 50 sad to relate ...

... Nature Notes by Norman Nature NOteS Fordyce grey, with a dark tail, and whitish underneath. The dress of the female is more of a chestnut red-brown with light grey underparts. Her red cap is diagnostic. I just have had another report of Wintering Blackcaps ...

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... Nature Notes . . The day after, I met Mr Jim Colvin who always has a good story from the wild. His latest was no exception. His neighbours next door at number one Witch-hill Road, Fraserburgh, Mr and Mrs John Mitchell, have a large garden with trees and ...

... Nature Notes BOUNTEOUS MAY SO very many are the wonderful sights, sounds and perfumes of this the Sth month of the year; May, that one could write volumes extolling its beauty and charms and appraising Mother Nature for yet another of one of her masterpieces ...

... Nature Notes 2>, e g 0 f’ s LR B, S All are more or less hairy perennials, with lance-olate leaves and carry the flowers on stalked spikes. The dainty blossoms, with four notched petals and eight stamens, certainly give character to the month of August ...

... Nature Notes . This third month of the year 1989 will be remembered for the spectacular displays of that phenomenon, the Aurora Borealis. On the evening of the thirteenth in particular, the performance was absolutely outstanding and seen as far south ...

... Nature Notes HERALD nature expert, Norman Fordyce, continues his article from last week. They can dive and stay under for half a minute using feet and wings in propulsion. A party in flight have been seen to form a “V formation. In the breeding grounds ...

... Nature Notes The Goldcrest is the smallest of all British breeding birds. AUTUMN SHADES INCOMER! Mother Nature, that supreme artist, runs riot at this time of the year. Such colour from the leaves and fruits, for instance, of the Hawthorn, (crataegus ...

... Nature Notes HERALD ‘Nature Man’, Norman Fordyce, continues his column from last week. visual details necessary to establish identification. Waxwings (bomby-cillagarrulus). From the Northern forests of the World they had come, winged rare visitors, ...