... IS THIS A RECORD ? HALL Green reader sends us the following nature note:— It may interest the bird-loving readers of the Mail to learn that a bantam hen which I reared from a chick has recently died from, apparently, senile decay. She had attained her ...

... TO-MORROW 6.39 p.m. to 8.3 a.m. Moon rlsts 4.30 a.m., sets 1.12 p-m. Day by Day SIR ARCHIE'S JVBU&' 30 FILMS /iV 30 MONTHS —A NATURE NOTE. Archibald Flower celebr* this year his jubilee as ® of Warwickshire County Co which he has sat as a of Stratford-on-Avon ...

... MIDLAND RANCTUABT. I was pleased to read in Nature Note*, writes Miss Rose McWilliam, King * Heath, a paragraph by Mr. T. Gloeier, who that apple ia very plentiful in and around the Trent Valley. This is not the caee in some parts of Warwickshire, and ...

... pleasure in recommending readers of this column. Mr. H. S. Kings, King’s Heath, writea:—'*l read with much i-terest your ‘Nature Note* Saturday lest, especially with regard the corncrake. I have only recently come to reside hero from ‘Waiaall, and know Tom ...

... want's gun cover. Writing from * Somewhere Belgium” Gunner J. the 23th Battery R.F.A., My*:-- Being •a reedcr of Nature Note*/ I thought you flr JMMTof jour feeder* would like know that the top straw covering one our gun* a wren has built her neet. Although ...

... Fires Burning Fire watching is likely to be made compulsory for women. That should stop them gadding about. Going Too Far A nature note commentator writes on August travellers,” which suggests that he regards holiday-makers as mere insects. Wyatt hit three ...

... On the death of the Mr. Reffitt, assistant editor Mail,” a quarter of a century Mr. Edwards took charge weekly column of Nature Note this paper. He continued his retirement until the war space restriction necessitated th e pension of this and many , features ...

... Of BROOM SFTD. Bcaring some extent this subject, Rushall correspondent write* The paragraph in last Saturday’s Nature Note*' called mind interesting occurrence connection with the laying out many acres of sidings the Birmingham side of Beacot Station ...

... pretty, forming graceful domes drooping twigs thickly covered with small foliage. LITTLE OWL IN WJ reference in lest week’* Nature Note* the information I hare giren you times during the fMet three years about the little owl,” writes Mr. E. F. Nicholls, Corentry ...

... wnbajcl by the large pike which abound watching mother duck nroodly with bmo>!. you eeo and the number Soon. a oorreapondant Nature Note*, we shall he able “a big pike swallowed one, and then ihsre were nona.” One likee the ■parting’ offer made hdety by * ...

... NATURE NOTES. from four rerj vith reqneflt that I would inform him what they were. Two of them «ro about the and shape fairly large potato, but are of distinctly woody nature, and have a beautifully polished Tory tody striated after the manner the inner ...

... which may be looked upon as useful creatures to mankind. Dobbin and the Blanket The annexed, though perhaps not a strictly Nature note, is contributed by S. Benton, Aston, in the hope that it may interest readers. He .writes: “The history of this black and ...