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... Nature Note blte the hand feeds you is rightly regarded as savouring 0 f ingratitude, in; K / of hospi ' lty ' and bei questionable manners. Just as reprehensible as e as extremely indiscreet ust be reckoned the conduct the smallest rabbit in a outhampton ...

Published: Wednesday 20 August 1947
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 98 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

NaTure NOTE

... NaTure NOTE. May is a busy month in bird-land. Robins, tits, and chaffinches are wearing their gayest plumage. Every hour of the day is ocenpied in nest-building. Early builders such as crows, blackbirds, thrushes and sparrows, are busy attending to the ...

A NATURE NOTE

... A NATURE NOTE PERSISTENT SPARROWS I think I may truthfully say that never have boon guilty of wrecking the home thwarting the plans any other bird —indeed they may look for the warmest hospitality in garden, and a larger share' the* fruit than ever get ...

Published: Thursday 06 July 1916
Newspaper: Stonehaven Journal
County: Kincardineshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 349 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

ANOTHER NATURE NoTE

... ANOTHER NATURE NoTE I am indebted to “J.F.,” a close student of bird lore, for the following informative note on one of our seasonal feathered visitors :—“The Snow Bunting, or as it is sometimes called the Snow Flake, is oue of our more attractive winter ...

THE CALL OF SPRING. A Nature Note

... THE CALL OF SPRING. A Nature Note. The call of Spring has come, and while it has not been very mindful of our needs during iw first days, its presence is felt all the same. Vegetation is pressing forward despite rather discouraging circumgtances. The ...

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... A correspondent writes in Nature Note aa month * liui't again*! 0» v»ll. our wimio* Wh'.n found th® D«y»t ih*re w«*ro aparrow't > in «t. uid our and &ur prv« * curfcixi'n in the no* Tur bird Iiad cinang mo, for a '&* day aiier-wara*, & SU urdav ...

Published: Monday 07 July 1902
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 89 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

NOTABLE SAYINGS

... of civilised man has every possible disadvantage; it is expensive, uncomfortable, and ugly.—Dean Inge. A Curious Nest. A nature note from London: A pair of pigeons have recently been building their nest just over the doorway of a busy public-house in one ...

Published: Saturday 02 June 1928
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 216 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

A Stranger Here

... Stranger Here Nature note from the columns of a daily paper: How is it that when one asks a passer-by for a direction in the street the other person almost invariably replies, Oh, I'm a '• stranger here myself ? Or perhaps this should be a fashion note ...

Published: Wednesday 19 January 1938
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 266 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

The Rambler

... to know something of the ways of their new guests. There's hardly a more fascinating subject. Lone Fid& HERE'S a little nature note a friend sends me from the Bridge of Don direction:— At the tail-end of a mudbank a heron stood in about six inches of water ...

Published: Thursday 30 December 1943
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 227 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

LITEARRY NOTES

... to hope and effort. The work tew grown or.it, raised The Countryside,' of which Mr Robinson is editor. author the daily Nature Note in tiw> Daily Mail, entitled The Country Day Day, Mr .Roibinsicin known one of the papular writers nature. ...

Published: Monday 04 June 1906
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 261 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

A READING GUIDE

... and 14 balls were recovered —all of the same brand, though the squirrel had several sorts from which to choose. Another Nature Note. Little George, the garage mascot, was visiting his aunt. found the cat in a sunny window purring cheerfully. Oli, Auntie ...

Published: Tuesday 06 September 1927
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 308 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

NEW HISTORY TEACHER

... carries an olive branch. Churchill, with Machiavellian eyebrows and a pointing hand, proclaims: It's your money I want. A Nature Note. Most Uttlo Beth'a neighbours have large families, and Beth herself is woll supplied with brothers and sisters. After returning ...

Published: Friday 18 March 1927
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 407 | Page: 6 | Tags: none