... Nature Notes ! When the Abergele fire service called to a fire at Brynrhydy rarian they were accompanied by a robin, which refused to leave the shelter of the Are tender. Upon arrival, the brigade found large numbers of hats being driven out of the burning ...

... Nature Notes Th. densest mass of water-crowfoot in these parts is now in flower over half the lake at Wrightingtnn Hall, between Parbold and Standish (writes EH.). It makes a wonderful sight. There were eight young coot, seven young wild duck. and ...

... Local Nature Notes Few woods look so well in winter as those near Ince Halt (writes Erie (Tardy), where the most abundant planting of dogwood undergrowth in Cheshire gives a rich, reddish-brown glow. These, thick with foxes, are on the edge ..f the Gowey ...

... Local Nature Notes With many wild fowlers at the Weaver estuary on Sunday, the Merseyside Naturalists’ Association found wigeon. teal, golden eye, pochard, tufted duck, snipe, dunlin, big flock of coot, dabchicks and many cormorants (writes Eric Hardy) ...

... Local Nature Notes Last week a hen peregrine was seen attacking pigeons near Liverpool Cathedral tower (writes Eric Hardy). Though not common here, a few peregrines visit the Dee every winter, and occasionally the Mersey shores and the coast at Ainsdale ...

... Local Nature Notes In the spacious park at Winstanley Hall, between Billinge and Wigan, this week (writes Eric Hardy), the woods were grand show of bluebells and red campion, and the woodcock covert full of graceful wood-horsetail. We also found milkwort ...

... Local Nature Notes In Wirral this summer goldfinches were at Arrowe Park, Meois, Brackenwood Park, and Bromborough Golf Course, where the shelduck was seen (writes Eric Hardy); marsh-gentian was unusually abundant with over 300 flowers at, Oxton Golf ...

... Local Nature Notes The trout and salmon season on the Dee is very good (writes Eric Hardy). About 2,000 salmon have been taken in the nets at Chester; a 30-pounder was recently caught at Llangollen, and last week salmon had gone as far up river as the ...

... Local Nature Notes The great gale made havoc in Childwall %Coeds the hill (writes Eric Hardy), bringing down 17 big [revs— 11 grand lwiclies. 4 Spanish chestnuts and a couple of wych elms—while a party of tre.-sparrows and a very early brambling ••eight ...

... Local Nature Notes A pair of woodcock have nested Haydock Park wood, two or three pairs of turtle dove in Golborfie Park, shoveler Wigan Flashes, and Leigh Flash (writes Eric Hardy) where pair of pochard duck and of dunlin have summered, and in June T ...

... Local Nature Notes At Loggerheads last week, with H. N. Southern, the distinguished- Oxford University naturalist, we found nesting dippers with young grey and pied wagtails, jays, nuuatches. bullfinches, swallows, housemartins, marshtit, treepipit, a ...

... Local Nature Notes A good many more days of rain are required (writes Eric Hardy), and the other day 1 paw that the mere at the Eggleston Ifall nature sanctuary, St. Helens, is less than a third its normal size, so that the great crested grebes have left ...