... NATURE NOTE A correspondent writes that: Whatever 1936 may hold for any individual one of them, it will be a year full of interest to nature lovers in general, for whatever goes on in the world of hay-day, go-day,’ the lanes and fields, the quiet woods ...

... NATURE NOTE HABITS THIS ISOM Ocionel R. F. writiag in The Field, t ryst—The onlinary mole heaps that everybody familiar with are not habr.a liana, an many potions imagine. for these are technically its workings, tne plum. where i: hods for prey, end ...

... NATURE NOTE. Mr. S. Banks, Portsmouth, writes saying that those who brave the cold, damp weather and sodden ground are well repaid, for the rain has set the water running and tumbling down the little gullies on the picturesque hillsides on the south the ...

... NATURE NOTE MR. J. Bentley, the president of 4 Todmorden Natural History Society. reports the visit to Centre Vale Park of two uncommon migrants, the garden warbler and blackcap warbler. Both birds can be seen and heard -in our cloughs, g:rticularly in ...

... Nature Note COTTAGE yg On the cottage . a thin sheet of flower tohich come ilr spring. It is not ...

... Nature Note EARLY In a pool rings of rising fl fiO attacking the flies on the surfac - Two or three V / but not more. te r signs, but this from every unnd and is shallow t *• ...

... NATURE NOTE. Summer sunshine has come at last, writes Mr. 8. Banks, of Portsmouth. Tlie hay that lay dripping and discolouring tho meadows has been gathered in. The unmown meadows neck ago have also boon cleared, such has been excellence of the weather ...

... NATURE NOTE. chekojn mil fxankajn. donis dual 1& kuracisto, , remetis !a tri aliajn mouujon, malvarrue ♦ salutis kaj eliria. Mr. S. IVanks. Portsmouth, writes cheer- j Louis la dekkvara kaj kortegano. fully of the change in tlic weather from ‘‘dark, Lou« ...

... A NATURE NOTE The eye of a vulture for carrion is not more keen than that strange instinct which seems to guide the sea-gull to its ‘“grub” (says “A . J. in “The Liverpool Post”), Let a ploughman enter a field and no sooner has he opened a furrow than ...

... A NATURE NOTE Winter’s sudden counter-attack upon the advance of spring was sudden and severe (says A. T. J.” in “The Liverpool Post.””) February went to near its end with violets and primroses and bird-song and an- increasing flame upon the gorse. Then ...

... A NATURE NOTE. lovely the trees are upon the isides of our valleys, and how charming the landscape bgaitty, writes Mr S. Banks of Portsmouth. in The Northern Daily Telegraph. The beech trees are as lovely as ever, their branches stretching out layer ...

... A NATURE NOTE, Two farmers made a sporting wager as to which of them could hold a wusp in‘;il hand the longer without getting stung. One of them, heing a wily creature, rn%b«i chloroform on his hand before he took hold of the wasp, The other farmer, being ...