... 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 IT was impossible sleep, for again and again I had been awakened bv the hooting of the tawny owls. In desperation rose and went to the window. There were fewer than five tawnv owls holding a concert in the garcfen! Presumably thev were youngsters ...

... NATURE NOTES. MOTHS AND BUTTERFLIES. The distinctions between moths and butterflies are, like many other scientific differentiations, not clean-cut might be desired ; and yet, when we take everything into account, particularly the variations that must ...

... NATURE NOTES. UNDER THE GREENWOOD TREK The Laird's words were seed on good ground when advised Jock to keep sticking in trees to grow while men slept. Like other words wisdom, they have not yet born© their full fruit, but are thankful for past mercies ...

... NATURE NOTES. Nesting in Highlands. the Highland# the earliest; nesting birds are the Raven, Coldon Eagle, and Crossbill. would be difficult award honour of being first nester to any species, certain pair birds might build abnormally early and that set ...

... NATURE NOTES TWO things conspired this year to unsettle the placid pace of swan life at the north end of the loch. The first was the long glittering spring. The nature of the loch hounded dong its long east and west shores by shuttering mountains, force-fed ...

... 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, ...

... NATURE NOTES. THE SQUIRREL. Before the. Government goes for large scheme afforestation, will require - to pass Destruction Squirrels Act, for injury caused to plantations these ' rodents is very serious, as many of northern- proprietors know their They ...

... Nature Notes JUNE EVENING The Midgies dance abeen the burn, The Dyows begin tae fa; The Pari@ricks doon the rusky holm Set up their eve’nin’ ca’; Noo loud an’ clear, the Blackie'’s sang Rings throu’ the briery shaw, While flittin’ gay, the Swallows play ...

... NATURE NOTES. HONEY. Numerous references early literates'® remind us that once held T&B&* more honoured, place among the 1 life than it does now. this not imply that its day is past —ouly since other competitors have entered field it does not occupy the ...