... NATURE NOTES I HAD put a sound piece of Rothiemurchus pine at my back, 50ft. high and a century and then some years old, the better to gawp at the acute morning sun dirking down into the mists of the Lairig, unwrapping Braeriach conic by corrie. An eagle ...

... NATURE NOTES FTER the heavy rain the and the y.% sun came out, warmth of it seemed to be to the bringing insect life the surface. judging b activity of numerous black- birds working hard on the lawn. They worked in twos and threes. but I noticed that ...

... NATURE NOTES. Valentine Even has come and gone, beef brose aud sauty bannocks have followed suit, and now to the Salvation Army and the Episcopalian is the season of selfdenial, penitence, and fasting. The coming of the “pee-weet,” and the storm that ...

... NATURE NOTES burnside, revealing the long sequence of crimson or white “bells”. One can find this wild flower of the many names springing up in profusion, on hillside, in copse, and even by the main busy highways, where under all circumstances, it enhances ...

... Nature notes HIGH up in the moorlands a flock of birds came swinging down from the skies, rose again, and finally landed some short distance away. Their soaring and skimming flight was similar to rnanv wading birds seen lie coast, and a moment later the ...

... NATURE NOTES. THE ROOK. If for some reason British ornithologists were be restricted to the company one species of our island birds, there can r be little doubt which group would be selected, for, if you take liim all in all, you will not find the equals ...

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... Nature Notes ■VEAR to the road and 1A trees a disused sandpit—at leasi du~ used bv man! Within much feathered life and along the face of the sand were numerous holes homes of sand-martins. For a time no adult birds were visible but eventually numbers ...

... 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 at his back at a vertical gallop, swerving without hesitation out along the first limb to the south. From there, he took a right-hand fork along a lesser timber, to a third and decidedly twiggy fork which bent under his passage. At what seemed ...