... 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 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 ...

... Local Nature Notes Three pairs of little tern are nesting at Ainsdale (writes Eric Hardy), where I got good telephoto records of them this week-end; last year the keeper told me their eggs were taken. Common and Arctic terns nested later than usual. A ...

... Local Nature Notes The nesting ,season as usual is providing its interests (writes Eric Hardy), and teal and redshank show further evidence of spreading their range, 'the former nesting for the first lime in one of the woodland pools at Crosby Hall, although ...

... Local Nature Notes Despite its increasing lack of undisturbed country, the Wirral has stiU • wealth of wild flowers (writes Eric Hardy) and last week-end 1 found over sixty plants in flower at Arrows Park and Irby. including marsh-violet by the stream ...

... Local Nature Notes The only herd of red deer in this part of the country is in Knowsley Park (writes Eric Hardy), and recently I counted 166 of them in the deer forest. in addition to over 50 fallow deer. The hinds and calves are in one big herd, and ...

... 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 Over a thousand wildfowl of half-a-dozen species and four great crested grebes were the White Man's Dam when the Merseyside Naturalists’ Association visited Knowsley Park last Saturday (writes Eric Hardy). Jays, sparrowhawks, nesting ...

... Local Nature Notes Sunday’s exceptionally high tide crowded birds along our shores at ITeshfield and Hoylake (writes Eric Hardy), and the Dee Estuary meeting of the new Merseyside Naturalists’ Association (8.E.N.A.) found 11,176 birds of 22 species. Mr ...

... Local Nature Notes A new bird and a new plant were added to our Liverpool area records this week (writes Eric Hardy). Wednesday afternoon my telescope picked out a Kentish plover feeding with the waders and gulls on the ebb tide below Dingle Point, a ...

... Local Nature Notes There are far more fieldfares and redwings, even on the edge of the city like Chi!dwell and Allerton, than there were last winter (writes Eric Hardy), and last Sunday, at Redesmere, between Knutsford and Macclesfield, a flock of 63 ...