... Nature Note. NIGHTS DAYS By CECIL T. COLLACOTT. A mild frost has touched the earth **■ vvUiist tne has been queen the night sines, and the white beam* have the crisp Ileitis that responded with a gleam of myriad silver, points. The stillness tliat has ...

... Nature Note. Scenes and Sounds, :o o: THE warm flush of Autumn spreads farther along the hedgerows, and across the face of the woodlands, deepening here and there to those tones bronze, that, in the light the setting sun, gleam such a rich lustre. There ...

... Nature Note. A NEW YEAR VISION. By CECIL T. COLLACOTT. RAIN broke the long epell frost, and the -change was a welcome oue for the birds well as lor man. the morning the starlings gather the roofs of the cottages and chatter merrily, whilst along the garden ...

... Nature Note. (By CECIL T. COLLACOTT.) TTOWEVER STORMY THE DAY has > been there is nearly always break after sunset. The clouds seem to fall back and the starry space overhead widens swiftly. A pale light flushes the eastern horizon, filtering here and ...

... NATURE NOTE THE REDSTART. The. Redstart., name comes from the old. English word which means tail. So the Redstart, or Redsteort. very often known as the Redtail. The central ,pair of feathers of the male bird** tail are greyish-brown, the rest of the ...

... Nature Note September Fruitfulness FAVOURED such glorious weather as we have for few days -enjoyed, September can be a most delightful month—second to none in the iwhole cycle of the year. Throughout an unbeclouded day, the warm light of the sun enhances ...

... Nature Note An Autumn Afternoon By CEC,L ' a - severe foretaste of Ii - - many cases • the and delight- Vn, •las' maturing autumn hues. ...

... Nature Note Morning and Evening By CECIL T. COLLACOTT. v - lage was alive and gay with sant harmony of birds this b the time the human voice '' d and man's activities began. , earliest of the avian singers Were those never-failing winter ' the Wren and ...

... Nature Note EVENING AND THE WOODS 4 S the sun dips beneath the horizon, and the cool grey shades of aproachmg dusk creep over the eastern hills the autumnal evening requiem of the birds in the wood is as sweet and soothing as the music of distant bells ...

... Nature Note. Nature's Tiny Life. (By CECIL T. COLLACOTT.) 1/TANY who love the green fields and flowers, and the higher life of our countryside, have a pronounced aversion to the lower forms of life which the entomologist makes his study. Yet the life ...

... Nature Note Fickle Grey Days. By Cecil T. Collaoott. dawn reveals a silent world, enveloped in a grey llUll Jl trable mist, in which vague shadow s men and horses appear in the fields, trees and houses assume fantastic sh»l' There is a steady dripping ...

... Nature Note October Flowers and Seeds T floral swe ets of field and hedgerow, marsh and moorland, are fading, and as the days of October pass they swiftly become scarcer. The remnants of summer blooms which remain, and the flowering plants still blossoming ...