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... NATURE NOTES. I have this week been informed be Mr. Bond, New Rent, Hatton-in.the-Yorest, that a very good specimen of the common fond leas killed by • mowing nischine. It rather curious that this aolitary bind should have been in the hayfield, but, ...

Published: Saturday 18 September 1915
Newspaper: Cumberland & Westmorland Herald
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 965 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

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... NATURE NOTES. At the Summer Islands, lillapoul. Roe-•hire, a large seal ramrine um 2,u. has been shot by as Island Revenue olff_er. That Scotch exciseman belongs to the breed who, when happy, want W out and day something. • • • AN ARTFUL SNAKE. Seeing ...

Published: Saturday 13 June 1903
Newspaper: English Lakes Visitor
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 152 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

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... Sse tater to al tec ” —— NATURE NOTES, Though we have bad very celd weath >a week, and you can etill see the snow . bit! tops, it did met stop me from ba walk im the te have a look in garden, Though ome may feel dul gloomy during winter, it makes one's ...

Published: Wednesday 27 March 1912
Newspaper: Burnley Gazette
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 153 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

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... nature notes ing of suspicion to the claim and ornithological experts decided that any cuckoo heard before April was either a boyish prank, a distant barking dog or hallucination! Most people have heard the cuckoo but how many would recognise the bird ...

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... NATURE NOTES. It is not often it falls to my lot to record the birth of twins, and more particularly twin chickens, which is a unique circumstance in my eKperienc+•. Mr. Isaac Stephenson, Newbiggin (nacre). tells nie he procured n setting of eggs from ...

Published: Saturday 21 July 1917
Newspaper: Cumberland & Westmorland Herald
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 734 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

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... NATURE NOTES. SEARS THAT MAKE ROADS. The best road-maker in Alaska, according to an Alaskan guide of many years' experience, is the brown bear. Not only are the banks of the streaau trodden into good trails by these great animals, but the swampy places ...

Published: Saturday 06 February 1904
Newspaper: English Lakes Visitor
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 194 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

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... NATURE NOTES, Most of my readers will have beard or read soak,. of the tales that have tome from the (mat about the rat plague. I have waited very patiently to hear the facts from someone who had actually seen these great big rats. The opportunity ran* ...

Published: Saturday 19 February 1916
Newspaper: Cumberland & Westmorland Herald
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 770 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Nature Notes

... Nature Notes 1 RECEIVED a letter last week from a friend who's working in Kenya at the moment and he was asking about the weather - How's winter?' ; He then goes on to say how much he misses the English weather (Yeah, but then who doesn't when you are ...

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... NATURE NOTES. Christmas Weather. On referring to my diaries, writes a correspondent, to corroborate what were vague recollections with regard to the weather on several previous Christmas Days, I find that the prevailing mild temperature has been quite ...

Published: Saturday 30 December 1905
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1097 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

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... NATURE NOTES. Aurora or Volcano The remarkable atmospheric phenomenon witnessed at Manchester and in London the other night was also seen from Berlin. A telegram from that city received last Thursday night says the sky was brightly diffused with red ...

Published: Friday 10 July 1908
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1075 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

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... NATURE NOTES. The Shepherd's Warning. A rainbow in the morning the shepherd's warning. We all learnt that long ago. This appallingly wet day (wrote-a valued contributor rainbow, which spanned the sky from east west, Thursday) was ushered by a magnificent ...

Published: Saturday 02 December 1905
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1012 | Page: 16 | Tags: none