... NATURE NOTES If familiarity did not breed contempt the Ragwort would be admired as much as many a tender plant, like its near relative the Cineraria, which has to be carefully martured in the hothouse to bring it into flower. Were it not so common its ...

... Nature Notes Autougst other topics discussed by those who a. - tite to the bewspiipers upon natural history subjects. the usefulness or otherwise of the I.ittle Owl is now being debated. Introduced front the Continent, this kiwi is now widely spread over ...

... Nature Notes October's days of ing summer li liven enjoyed by all and noticeably so by the birds. The Starlings foimil the still, air KO 11111 , 11lii their liking that, in place Of their usual straight and tapid flight, they took short 11111 IS to and ...

... NATURE NOTES A Great Crested Grebe (Wyach law! . neu Wyach Fawr Goppom, a rather unusual bird in Cardiganshire, was repotted to be on one of our upland lakes. No time was lost and the lake was visited three days later. The bird was not found on the lake ...

... Nature Notes In waini summer evening. Just as the light i- lading. the moths visit the gardeil which attriti•teil the butterflies during the day. we watch, we are aware of something larger than the general run of it insect vislinis mid Inure rapid ill ...

... Nature Notes t ilic hir• • ni t: Imstd•ai ilailks • : rrrent dm. : •• Walkitr.: tilwig the rii.sllll two Port TalMit people liv •8 tottolicr s. att. t a sev..t . .• NM , v.•er.• v iiiven at. Mrtis. the :anal S1101.11.14•1* , it th • 1%u.k% Olt sm•aip ...

... Nature Notes. The errom In Ili Sower along iwnk. of the Ystwyth. Violet.' err preping .hyl% out her. and there in the thr t:r.rind h i etorring the %King gra , i‘ With i inint of wit in Nl' splenilour•-niskins ihi. hillei golden, the Air warin with its ...

... Nature Notes. In the middle of the great peat-bog there is silence and solitude. No sound is heard from the nearest of the villages, over n mile Away, at the foot of the hills which bound this great level on its landward side. In the distance. however ...

... Nature Notes September again brings red berries to the hedges, stubbles fast becoming bare, clusters of nuts on the hazels. But its still and sunny days fail to tempt our summer birds to prolong their stay. The Swallows are mustering on roofs and telegraph ...

... Nature Notes. The end el drought I. the not welcome item to record al, week. There were ,howera .it the hog.uning of the week, and there woe k Wednesday that rain becoming geoora;—to the great relief oi the Lountry. The cuckoo beard In parta of Cardiganshitt ...

... Nature Notes. Though many place names in Cardiganshire are als:44)ciated with the nightingale, the bird is seldom or never heard in this eountys There is an old tradition that it was banished from Ceredigion by St. Land because its song rivalled his eloquence ...

... Nature Notes. , While insects in general are associated with summer warmth and brightness. the Winter Moth make its appearance (luring the chilly days towards the close of the year. The male moths often he seen flying in the dusk of a December evening ...