... . . Local Nature Notes The winter scene is gradually descending upon Merseyside (writes and true to the calendar the little greyish November Moth emerged this week from the birch plantations in Childwall Wood, and, like the larger, more ochreous-hued ...

... * * * tscal Nature Notes Further figures in the annual local rookery census, with nest numbers for the previous year (writes Eric Hardy). are: West Derby. Meadow-lane 52 (43). Croxteth Park 26 (16), Deysbrook 76 184). Dovecot 21 (21). Pilch-lane 12 (19) ...

... ♦ ♦ * Local Nature Notes The spring run of salmon up the Dee is a good one (writes Eric Hardy) and seems better than that I found there last March; I spent Monday with the salmon-netters at Handbridge, and the net got a 201 b. fish, but the biggest in ...

... will no longer blare, Let us remember again, and again. That these were our heroes, these ordinary men. M. S. * * * Local Nature Notes Woodcock, nightjar, jay, chiffchaff, and Seat spotted woodpecker are nesting in ere Sands Wood, Rufford (writes Eric Hardy) ...

... * * * Local Nature Notes The countryside around Wigan and St. Helens is very beautiful now (writes F. H.). Harebells, campion, and hawkweeds colour the hedgebottoms with blue, red, and gold; hazels are with nuts and catkins, and the Liverpool Naturalists' ...

... pocket, the reveller said: Gents, let me introduce you to my pocket bottleship.”—” Beachcomber the Daily Express. * * Local Nature Notes A new Cheshire nesting haunt of the great crested grebe is on the Weaver, above Frodsham (writes Eric Hardy), and of shoveller ...

... * * * Local Nature Notes Ermines or white stoats occasionally come our way in winter, and the other evening one crossed the road into my headlight near Mailing (writes Eric Hardy). Little grebes or dabchicks w’ere recently in two curious incidents. At ...

... That fly,” he chuckled, walked in and out of my hand exactly two hundred and sixty-five times !”^— Tatler. * * * Local Nature Notes The Merseyside Naturalists’ Association, which decided to publish its new book on the Birds of the Liverpool Area, this ...

... Look, you’ve put them on the wrong feet. Jackie (reproachfully): But these are the only feet I’ve got, mummy. * * * Local Nature Notes Great crested grebes are nesting on Scotsman's Flash, Wigan, for the first times (writes Eric'Hardy), and on the four miles ...

... • • • Local Nature Notes Tne wild cherries have nude EnAr show of blossom In Knowsley Park this week (writes Eric Hardy), and at Hawarden, North Wales, last week-end, where the Liverpool Naturalists' Field Club held its opening general field meeting, ...

... utterly ruined.” Second Black-Marketeer.—“ Me. too. F.ven now. I’ve hardly got two customers to rob together.” * * Local Nature Notes If you don’t believe in paying up to 7s a lb. for mushrooms for breakfast there are lots of edible wild mushrooms left ...

... * * ■* Local Nature Notes At midnight on Sunday i stopped my cycle the East Lancashire Hoad to watch an otter swimming in the Alt (writes Eric Hardy), his mask and tail breaking water methodically as if he were hunting something; but the Alt is such a ...