... NATURE NOTE. YELLOW-HAMMER'S SIMPLE CALL Amid the rapidly diminishing volume and variety of bird-song, the yellowhammer's shorts and simple call for bread and no cheese still comes from the hedge-tops. It is the most easily recognised of any song ...

... NATURE NOTE. THE WANDERING VOICE OF THE CORNCRAKE. Cycling along a dusty road, I surprised in the hedge bottom a thin, straggly bird. which, with a short and awkward flight and dangling legs, went into the trees at my approach. It was a corncrake. It ...

... NATURE NOTE. BIRDS IN THE IRISH SEA. By W. CRO3IL It did not strike nic till the other day. when I crossed f Dunhary to Holyhead a cloudless trununer day and on a smooth and sea, that one bird far outnumbered all others on that . particular piece of water ...

... A NATURE NOTE. Tb* field in front the rwknrj newly ploughed, and so the bird* •** forage on the threshold their« homes. They at* the fi*W Vong, and not all the time hunting-!” stock for the lander. They seem te found gome type' name to pI»J game in whidt ...

... A NATURE NOTE. THE TERNS. By F. A. C. .Why do birds which have made one place their haunt for many years sui• denly desert it altogether? If the pls.* change in some vital way, either through diminution of food supply or' less security for the birds' ...

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... A NATURE NOTE. INTERESTING PHOTOGRAPH OF A CORNCRAKE. ?tato : W. H. Iratine. In my note on the return of the migrants in early spring-tune (writes Mr. E. F. Nichols), I remarked that the swallows were quite common again in our district. Since then my ...

... A NATURE NOTE. NO CHEESE. a, E. A. C;, Each week now reduces the volume and variety of bird-song. but eves .in the quietest part of August the yelles hammer's short and simple call for bread and no cheese persists front the hedge-tops. It is the ...

... A NATURE NOTE. Bird Lover” writes the “Westminster Gazette*’ follows:—“It may interest Mr. Crook and others of your readers know that the cuckoo was heard at Lyndhurst April 14tb, when some martins'were bo seen. This wate. course, according to cuckoo ...

... A NATURE NOTE. BY HEDGEROW AND FIELD. It is better at this season to choose the country lane with high banks and 'not too trim hedges than take a path over meadows. and end up by following a stream until it brings one back to the high road, au old village ...

... A NATURE NOTE BIRDS IN SEPTEMBER. By W. M. CROOK. Among the pine and larch woods in the Surrey hills which fortunately escaped destruction during the war large flocks of titmice may now be observed. Many of them are long-tailed tits, one of the most beautiful ...

... Our Nature Note. March has «>n occasion beguiled its reputation most decorous entry. The fields have assumed more greenish hue. which though not yet emerald, proves delightful contrast to the harsh bare a few weeks ago. There an* patch gold crocus and ...