... NATURE NOTES Three balls of fluff, ten to twelve days old, likable to look at as are most young birds; but, being hungry and parentless, at times they appeared pathetic to an extreme degree. They were the young of kestrels, and although half dead owing ...

... Nature Notes Down below the clear ribbon-like river speeds its way cheerfully, forever downwards; at odd times out of view as it bends somewhat lazily round a wooded slope.* Above, a pure blue sky displays a few slow and distant cumulus clouds, drifting ...

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... Nature Notes Visitors to the bird table have been interesting and varied during the past few days. Their visits, ‘however, have not been regular. ISome days they have appeared ‘several times, on other days only once, and on these latter occasions they ...

... NATURE NOTES An inquirer has seen a bird like a robin but with its red marking differently plac>d. This bird is the redstart, a showy bird belonging to the same family as the robin, and like it in its stance. The redstart is not as common as the robin ...

... NATURE NOTES The day was clear and warm, and a holiday mood prevailed. People were almost everywhere, walking, riding, “picnicking,” wading: a very peacetul, happy scene. Qur quest this time was twofold : first to find ‘the whereabouts of tha ring ousel ...

... NATURE NOTES Bird song is now noticeably absent, apart from a few occasional chirps. The chief reason is that the birds are having their annual moult. As if half-ashamed of their appearance they go into semiretirement, seeking the more secluded areas ...

... NATURE NOTES. At the opening of the winter programme of the Hebden Bridge Literary and Scientific Society’s natural history section last Saturday night in the Secondary School, the meeting being under the presidency of Mir. A. Newell, Todroorden, in addition ...

... Nature Notes THE SECRET OF THE POOL Apart from the daily visit of tne white-throated dipper bobbing and curtseying, with an occasional sweet trill, the pool surface is undisturbed by any feathered creatures. A few seasons ago a Kingfisher, finding an ...

... Nature Notes A sparkling white carpet covered the pastures, for a keen frost had spread an attractive mantle alike on walls and trees. It was a pretty and spectacular show. There were intricate designs on every slender branch and twig. and brittle spikes ...

... NATURE NOTES. With apologies tha “Yorkshire Observer** reprint the following notee by local writer:. No birds axe mors food the pine woods than the gold-crest. In summer the nest boilt there, almost invariably banging from the under aide of outspreading ...

... NATURE NOTES ues have not behaved 12 wild creatures. That ler sprite the kingfisher calte under our observation a few Recent kindly to brilliant days ago as we rounded the bend of a lucalemill dam. Alas, however, tais lovely creature has since been found ...