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NATURE NOTES

... NATURE NOTES S the days grow shorter the nights grow longer, writes Sand Piper. For some weeks now the countryside has been lively with the noise of our feathered friends on their nocturnal migratory flights to more congenial climes. Although peewits ...

Published: Friday 09 November 1956
Newspaper: Runcorn Weekly News
County: Cheshire, England
Type: | Words: 278 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

NATURE NOTES

... NATURE NOTES. Many of our Young Citizens will have been to the seaside during the. last few and will. 1 am certain, have been delighted to see the wonderful movements of the seabirds as they alighted on the shore or rested on the sea waves. Perhaps. some ...

Published: Friday 27 August 1920
Newspaper: Runcorn Weekly News
County: Cheshire, England
Type: | Words: 378 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

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... NATURE NOTES. Spring is coming, sure I hoard a mime; thrush the other '• Cheerio, cheerio, cherio, be Gang, and then, •• Wake up, wake up, wake up' I am sure that is • sign of brightsx days coming. 110 seemed to be enjoying the beak day and telling the ...

Published: Friday 19 February 1926
Newspaper: Runcorn Weekly News
County: Cheshire, England
Type: | Words: 115 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

NATURE NOTES

... NATURE NOTES. The countryside is lovely jtet now, and the meadows are ripe unto harvest. I walked through a meadow on Saturday where the grass was three feet high. In :he hedger OW9 the blackberry flower ie already appearing, and the fields are , overed ...

Published: Friday 11 June 1920
Newspaper: Runcorn Weekly News
County: Cheshire, England
Type: | Words: 1175 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

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... NATURE NOTES (By Walter J. Vernon. Chester) BEES (23) ?A,RASITISAI Where the carcase is. there wt..; the aLso.' might be parapnra_ed in.o Where industry is. there isi.l the parasites De also,' tar wiser, you lino that an has lien toriuna.e or succu,- ...

Published: Saturday 28 May 1938
Newspaper: Crewe Chronicle
County: Cheshire, England
Type: | Words: 351 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

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... 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 ...

Published: Friday 28 February 1908
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1411 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

Nature Notes

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 06 June 1936
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 224 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

NATURE NOTES

... 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 ...

Published: Friday 19 April 1907
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1460 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

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... NATURE NOTES. - , Uwe any of you boy% and girls the grasshopper during your summer holidays? If you ita%e not you have numbed a treat giusshopper family is the most livvly svt 1 have ever met. There are nu slow-omuliee UI it, no strikers or lazy-bones ...

Published: Friday 03 September 1920
Newspaper: Runcorn Weekly News
County: Cheshire, England
Type: | Words: 401 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

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... NATURE NOTES. To-day e m I walked in the country. I came across a littio chaffinch with a broken wing. It was hopoing about the lane in search of food. and looked as if it. was struggling to make the best of hfe—a4 it The meadowl are being turned into ...

Published: Friday 25 June 1920
Newspaper: Runcorn Weekly News
County: Cheshire, England
Type: | Words: 209 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

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... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 23 September 1905
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1367 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

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... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 18 October 1902
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 513 | Page: 3 | Tags: none