... NATURE NOTE BULLFINCHES AND BUDS “A pair of bull-filnches are now regUarly visiting this and neighbouring Mr- Jens.” writes A.P., of Burton Agnes. 'Th O brilliance of their plumage, especially the male, has to be seen to be appreciited. The seed pods ...

... Nature Note brown snow has weighted fronds and broken -g i flh For months ...

... NATURE NOTE From time to tune Interesting specimens in natural history make their appearance in this locality,, and a few days ago Mr C. P. Turner took a very line example the female Garden Tiger Moth (Arctia Caja), and Mrs Wilson found male of the same ...

... Nature Note CATS AND Why are domestic S in frosty weather? I thrown out of doors , to get up circulation if jcS but become excited rug, playing J the warmest part of My cat has just imaginary enemy ifid down again, and is the garden. o J It takes care ...

... NATURE NOTE CARRION CROWS AT BIRD TABLE During the snow and frost, pair of carrion crows came to feed a garden bird table a few yards from the house,” ! writes correspondent. “When 1 first noticed these unexpected visitors one j the birds was busy on ...

... NATURE NOTE M-r. S. Banks, Portsmouth, writes: I morn being mild and open, various km ...

... NATURE NOTE Burry, aged seven, has reached that stage of his natural history when the secrets of hibernation are being explained to him, The other day he was taken to the house of 4 lady with a large family who happened to be baking. As he watched her ...

... NATURE NOTE OWLS AND THEM FOOD Even in these days of field e Nature classes old beliefs die heed curiously true of that particular greg o which attributed goat emcking to the coweuoking to the hedgehog, and to the cuckoo and or!. And it i g this week ...

... NATURE NOTE BY MILLWAY It Is a pleasing sight in the autumn to see the gulls following the plough, accompanied often by the peewits ano l rooks. So bold is the greedy gull, that • when he discovers that the industrious ploughman is bent on his own task ...

... NATURE NOTE The advent of Spring with its remarkably fine weatner ana the almost sudden activities associated with this season of the year is a rare tonic to the warweary people, and the prospect of an early end to the war has added to the appreciation ...

... NATURE NOTE. Mr. S. Banks, of Portsmouth, in his note itmarks the splendid variety of recent suia-vt-r. Night after night (he writes) Uie western sk;e.-> have presented to our view pictures of uusurpassing beauty. We have now the purplo heather, which ...

... NATURE NOTE FLORISTS’ DAFFODILS “There are more than 500 different florists’ varieties of daffodils,” writes J.S. “but to most people the daffodil is simply a beautiful yellow flower proclaiming tuat winter is over. The name is the Greek “asphodeles” ...