... Local Nature Notes A bank-vole was run over on Tuesday so far in Liverpool as Lance Lane (writes Eric Hardy), although it breeds in Broadgreen railway bank. Snipe, yellow wagtails, and at least one white wagtail were migrants at Fazakerley sewage farm ...

... Local Nature Notes A greater forkbeard caught at Formby Point is one of the rarest, of “local fishes (writes Eric Hardy) coming from deep Atlantic water, and with but four previous records from Anglesey, the Flintshire Coast, Rhos Weir and Liverpool Bay ...

... Local Nature Notes There were pintail on Puddington marsh last week, and a good number of wild duck have been flighting over Parkgate (writes Eric Hardy), while at high tide on the Dee marshes the other night I heard crowds of mallard, wigeon, teal and ...

... Local Nature Notes There are far more fieldfares and redwings, even on the edge of the city like Chi!dwell and Allerton, than there were last winter (writes Eric Hardy), and last Sunday, at Redesmere, between Knutsford and Macclesfield, a flock of 63 ...

... Local Nature Notes After a winter of abundance only a few scaup duck remained at West Kirby Marine Lake and in the Dee mouth off Hilbre, this week (writes Eric Hardy), and amongst the handsome turnstones below the lifeboat slip I watched a few purple ...

... Local Nature Notes Sixty-five wild flowers, 23 different birds, swarms of the brilliantly crimson day.-flying, six-spot bumet-moth and plenty of silver-washed fritillary butterflies were the record of Ainsdale Nature Sanctuary (writes Eric Hardy) in the ...

... Local Nature Notes A field of buckwheat in flower by Eccleston Lane, Prescot, is a rare sight and attracting the bees (writes Eric Hardy), while a friend sends me plant of chicory or succory from Poverty Lane Maghull, a wild flower I last saw at Ainsdale ...

... Local Nature Notes Last week a hen peregrine was seen attacking pigeons near Liverpool Cathedral tower (writes Eric Hardy). Though not common here, a few peregrines visit the Dee every winter, and occasionally the Mersey shores and the coast at Ainsdale ...

... Local Nature Notes The Southport district is still one of our best nature study centres (writes Eric Hardy), with its winter flocks of pink feet and white-fronted geese amongst the biggest in the country, and Hesketh Bank guns have told me of an odd flock ...

... Local Nature Notes Wild geese began to crowd on to Martin Mere, near Southport, about twelve years ago (writes Eric Hardy), coming in the morning to feed on the old potatoes and returning to the Ribble estuary at dusk. They arrived this time at August ...

... Local Nature Notes Another orphan of the storms, a little auk, was recently swimming and (hying on the boating pool at New Brighton (writes Eric Hardy), and bird lovers have had the opportunity of watching this diminutive black and white seabird that ...

... Local Nature Notes Fourteen great flights of wild geese thrilled the meeting of the Merseyside branch of the British Empire Naturalists Association in the Ribble estuary last week-end (writes Eric Hardy), and Mr. W. Bunney and Mr. C. Bramwell took some ...