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NATURE NOTES

... NATURE NOTES. I walking round the lane. nights ago looking for hlackberross when I acmes a wild rose buish with lovely fluffy balls of greets and crimes. hair. Some of the oountry children en them ragged robins, but the real name •• galls. They have really ...

Published: Friday 17 September 1920
Newspaper: Runcorn Weekly News
County: Cheshire, England
Type: | Words: 539 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

NATURE NOTES

... NATURE NOTES. The , wallows are leaving us and flying south again. On the you y see them gatheiing together on the telegraph wires, talking ailmug themseives as though they were story of illackberriem ripen in the hedgerows and the cornfields will soon ...

Published: Friday 20 August 1920
Newspaper: Runcorn Weekly News
County: Cheshire, England
Type: | Words: 66 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

NATURE NOTES

... NATURE NOTES. Mountain Spectres. It would be interesting to learn if any nature lovers have come across a spectre like that of the Brocken in course travels in England. The phenomenon seems quite simple when you have discovered site where you may play ...

Published: Friday 10 May 1907
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1090 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

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... NATURE NOTES. Mountain streams, - rippling brooklet/1. and as far as the eyes oauld see, but heather and bracken I have been . among the hills that separate Inarnebire : from Yorkshire. There & blue sky and a warm sun. I bad Provided with old olothis ...

Published: Friday 24 September 1920
Newspaper: Runcorn Weekly News
County: Cheshire, England
Type: | Words: 518 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

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... NATURE NOTES. th c a , awthorn is flower, * m is ngled with 0 T hll he Earless blackthorn Soni - do not U get the full effect of \ X ahead. I. \ H »t ty. V ly finish I, , eSh re correspondent, Ski ,t(i(i ' earliest sown conditions, has I ,ooksn better ...

Published: Saturday 22 April 1905
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 375 | Page: 17 | Tags: none

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... NATURE NOTES. The Golden Gors*. The golden gotse bloom* practically the whole peer round, but never it welcome than thaw dark of winter. At the mm is covered with bod* bunt Into ni»«f the first bright day. Already some atieltered cobmk beginning to htootn^ ...

Published: Friday 26 January 1912
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 534 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

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... NATURE NOTES. Magpies. It always strikes wonder that have ! any magpies left, for they are so relentlessly per- j secuted. The magpie is a handsome bird at close quarters, but withal a thief. It delights to feed On the eggs of smaller birds, hence it ...

Published: Friday 29 October 1909
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1153 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

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... NATURE NOTES. Some Nettles and a Moral. When you stretch out your hands clutch the flowers that greet you by the wayside it is often your lot be stung nettles. You smart: you growl. Yet, what soothing unction you obtain when you take the trouble to look ...

Published: Friday 05 July 1907
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1421 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

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... NATURE NOTES. The Coming Spring. The older naturalists would probably have had good deal to say about such bright and hopeful weather as we have lately experienced. But nowadays we are apt to take these signs of the regeneration of the year as something ...

Published: Friday 26 February 1909
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1454 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

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... NATURE NOTES. Meals for Birds. - some the readers of nature notes may be able to say whether or not it harmful give birds breadcrumbs during the frost? Some people declare that it is. and that suoh birds thrushes require chopped suet or scraps of meat ...

Published: Friday 24 January 1908
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1419 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

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... NATURE NOTES. Hullard Park. May I suggest to those of ycur readers interested flower culture that they should pay casual visit to Huliard Park, where, I venture to think, they will ree what will fully Tepay them for their walk. The little unpretentious ...

Published: Friday 28 September 1906
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1342 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

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... NATURE NOTES. Curious Phenomenon. At Buxton, on Monday afternoon, half-past four o'clock, the sky, which had been a uniform dirty grey from early morning, suddenly became violet, or rather magenta—a reddish violet. The house where I and my friends are ...

Published: Friday 11 January 1907
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1496 | Page: 13 | Tags: none