... NATURE NOTE The wicket at Leeds was under water to-day, and seagulls revelled in the rippling pools. Evidently they had arrived, overnight, from Old Trafford. TWO DEAD IN LORRY'S SWERVE Wigan Widow In Fatal Crash INQUEST COMMENT Inquest verdicts of ...

... To-day's Nature Note. 80 , iar. the low pivltati• of • lordher •nrts: Summer. • munesitluwt binl o t4 death. Autumn. • cutely, lineriney Wietrr. • pause—the rmnstn I tray iskea —Witham blorr.. The Seasons' Harmony. ...

... A NATURE NOTE There is an entry on January 7, 1931, three years after the one entry shout the falling out with his wife, continued Mr. Allen, in which the accused writes. ' A night of keen frost. The heavy fog give.. a wonderful appearance to all ...

... A Nature Note During a recent brief between spells of winter . austere mood, a missel Jp heard'*hi full voice (says “A-and, intermittently across t' ...

... A Nature Note The rich crops of the field are repeat 01 in the hedgerow (says “A. T. J.”’). fruiting shrubs are laden with 3,1 abundance of bright berries. The rowafl’ usually the first to colour, are being stripped of their heavy clusters improvident ...

... 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 “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 The season thus f» has not been unkindly which, though they rough spells, have unusually green for the Those March winds, ' vl of dust wliich other respects to the j tions, have brought abundance that, instead sapless sward, the strangely ...