... Nature Notes NLY a few davs ago a man said to me: “I see that the rooks are gathering at their usual nesting place. Surel) they cannot be thinking o! setting-up house before the end o the year? Of course, the answer was “No although the rook is one of ...

... NATURE NOTES T was one of those quiet days that you sometimes experience towards the end of the year. The sun shone, there was no wind, but despite these facts practically no birds were in evidence. In the field beside the cottage, much of the ground ...

... NATURE NOTES. LINNAEA BOREALIS—ITS LIFECYCLE, One hundred and twelve years ago there was added to the British flora a new plant remarkable interest and beauty—the Linnjea borealis. The discoverer was Professor James Beattie, jun., of Marischal College ...

... NATURE NOTES. THE SQUIRREL VULGARIS). The increase fir plantations during last century has brought about many changes interesting to all -watch natural phenomena. The rainfall and the amount flow the rivers have been affected; the fertility and the amenity ...

... Nature Notes Late Summer Nature Trail A sufficient indication that the long hot summer is at last on the wane, is the unusual quiet on the pleasure park,; of course, school holidays are over and the bairns are back in the class-room, all well suntanned ...

... NATURE NOTES •THE 'imc start foeditiß carclen birds is upon us and will) it some attendant problems. Perhaps the commonest of all concern cals and: their pastime of catching birds, often’ playing with them if with a mouse, and. of course, eating them ...

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... Nature Notes mDMBLED rocks lay thickly on both sides the river here and numerous trees made the spot a very sheltered one. Insect life must have be« abundant Judging the many wagtails that were in evidence. Both the pled and the grey varieties were c ...

... NATURE NOTES IT is an otter of south Skye I know best. How often have I caught him cutting his bubble-betrayed swathe through the Sound; how often grinned involuntarily back at his cautionary gasped “Haa!” or his dire warning “Haaaahh!” as he reduced ...

... NATURE NOTES. BULBS. That such lovely thing as a snowdrop should came, through weather difficulties of a severe kitnd, into being early the seoond month of the year is something which, like the migration of birds and many another phenomenon of Nature ...

... Nature Notes SNOW, rain, fog and brilliant sunshine, and all within a matter of a few days, its little wonder that our extremes of weather provides us all with an always topical conversation opener! However, as | prepare these notes it would certainly ...