... A Nature Note During the brilliant weather of a week or so ago wb the snow sunrise was opal-bl in the long shadows, the tre darkly lined and rigid if they were frozen into immobile the only bird voice to greet flashing sun was that of the dipp| With its ...

... A Nature Note “Grim November” hard things said of it, all events it has so far September (says A. T rising sun lights up t chequer the oak wood’s slopes glow with the rus and heath, and in the ir the glade in a listening sings.” Along the banl few bluebells ...

... A Nature Note Although most birds get rid of the' r offspring as speedily as comni decency and duty permit (say “A. T. J. ”), some families seem remain together indefinitely. The long' tailed tits are among these, fledgling* and parents keeping company ...

... A Nature Note These are famine days for most insect tribes which have not O , shelter (says A. T. J.”), and the , flies, with perhaps a stray wasp. ,j hang about the dregs of the ivy’s 11 , store are listless and will make victims to the frozen palms ...

... A Nature Note The lark song of the dipP ,, the happiest of sounds (sa> = and pair of these is nesting about the boul stream, but the exact loca 1 neat I have not discovered- 1 surely few prettier incident $ than that of a pair of dipP for building material ...

... A Nature Note The nightjar that from some he» l hillside churns its shuttle to the suni 1 j twilight, its weird voice rising L falling, and with a ventriloquial baffling the listener as to whether bird is here or there, could scarcely escaped arousing ...

... A Nature Note Our red squirrels are following a period in seemed by their antics to mad as any March hare ' “A. T. J.”) They cunningly ’ trive to conceal from IIS J whereabouts of their new evidence of the shredding bark from certain conifers, bits of ...

... A Nature Note The blackthorn is always so capricious in its flowering date (says “A. T. ,T.”) that it seems to be little affected the weather conditions. But this veor it, in common with so many other plants, appeal’s to have endured such a shock from ...

... A Nature Note We owe much to those which, with the mosses, so galls , keep the green flag of life A}' 1 , throughout winter (says“A. T-J- Most noticeable is the because it is often the most valent but because it is now at. best. This is, indeed, its h ...

... A Nature Note A caterpillar of the puss-® “A. T. J.”) was brought in ago; a fat and fearsome-lookinl which is supposed by its f*j ...

... A Nature Note Though we may 1 promises (says “A. T. the sun shines warm f banks, there is a P ecU in the drone of a bumbi 6 of the few sounds which [ with it definite prom l days. And, after jr queen-mother, blunder!' willows for the first e $ pollen ...

... A Nature Note A red squirrel, lithe, llg and whimsical in his turo loping across a garden { with the orange and fallen oak leaves, is the * V autumn (says “A. T. J- b autumn of melancholy f Nature’s autumn, season hjjt earth’s fulfilment, .out* 1 ' promise ...