... Nature Notes Nature Notes Nature Notes LYING in bed the other morning we were listening to a couple of crows calling to each other in the woods. It was just before dawn and it reminded me of story told by the Inuits or Eskimos of how the “Crow brought ...

... nature notes nature notes natur It's starting! Only one or two at the moment but it's a promise of what's to come - 1 hope. The dawn chorus is being practiced by a blackbird and a wren with the occasional accompaniment of a mistle thrush and a robin all ...

... Nature Notes ! When the Abergele fire service called to a fire at Brynrhydy rarian they were accompanied by a robin, which refused to leave the shelter of the Are tender. Upon arrival, the brigade found large numbers of hats being driven out of the burning ...

... NATURE NOTES. Light and Shade. There an element of boisterous gaiety in the atmosphere, of sheer rollicking fun the gale that tears over the fields and hills in a great roar of wild liberty. And the sunlit air seems to be sparkling with liquid gems flowing ...

... NATURE NOTES. Children's Recreation. The success of outdoor schools should point moral to the well-to-do classes. For stupid stolid children are as prevalent among the rich as among the poor, and with the rich little effort is made secure intellectual ...

... NATURE NOTES. Rock Gardens. is given to few English folk to understand the scientific rules that underlie the fascinating rock gardens of Japan. But it seems pity that citizens cannot get experts to arrange such space is at their command on the principle ...

... Nature Notes Th. densest mass of water-crowfoot in these parts is now in flower over half the lake at Wrightingtnn Hall, between Parbold and Standish (writes EH.). It makes a wonderful sight. There were eight young coot, seven young wild duck. and ...

... NATURE NOTES. Grateful Ghosts. A dear little girl told me the other day that it might winter the daytime, but it was always summer at night. When I asked for an explanation, she said that her bed was always surrounded by buttercups and daisies and harebells ...

... NATURE NOTES. Crops Cheshire. The combined influence sunshine and shower, writes a Holmes Chapel contributor, favouring the growthj of mangels and swedes, which have now reached a useful size. apprehend that mangels growth will soon cease, for they are ...

... NATURE NOTES. HOW BIRDS TRAVEL ordinary route of our travelling birds autumn is from nor'-nor'-east to sou-sou because the cold north north-east wind which makes them move and the natural trend the land ope is to the south and south-west. The bird* do ...

... NATURE NOTES. Rivers in Flood. A feature of this week the country the spates that are following the thawing the snows in the uplands. The rivers and becks are rumbling with brown turbulent floods, and making up for the extrao dinary lowness and clearness ...

... NATURE NOTES. OCT DATE. It not every year (says writer in the Daily \ Graphic) yon can oat and gather bunch of wild flowers on the Ist of December. Nor, perhaps, is worth while do even when you can. The lingering poppy, which still makes a bright spot ...