... NATURE NOTE Even In the second eek et May we have no: tscsped, the threat of frost. This. On the drought is holding lad spring growth. The Chest:us Sunday has been crlebratti..,, the chestnut trees have sun to make their best &be*. The may blossom is ...

... Nature note Sir.--I thoroughly agree with your correspondent who states that we may expect an early season for birds. The rooks seem to be well ahead with their nest building. and on March 18 my friend and I found a completed blackbirds' nest. But our ...

... Nature Note The turn of the year has really come This week the chiff-chaffs, first of this year's migrants, were singing in a Middlesex garden—a very early date. We may perhaps expect an early seaaon for birds in general, as well as plants. Almost all ...

... NATURE NOTE only) 29 Bruton Street A AM 11 years old arid study birds in about a third of my spare time. I read Robert Lynd's Saturday Essay and find that he has not heard of the Thick Knee. It is another name for the Stone Curlew. I am sure that you ...

... Nature Note THE Boyd Neel Orchestra. which recently appeared without a conductor in a Bach- Handel programme. was probably controlled by a switch, a musician tells us. Conductorless orchestras occasionally run about town free or spare. but the police ...

... Nature note 154,4,1-61 Earlier in the week, just before dusk, I saw a cloud of starlings, a countless host, dire swiftly from the unclouded sky and, after two enormous wheels in perfect formation, settle as if by a common impulse on the trees of the Thames ...

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... peaceful days, Almost like the village chimes Headlines bring hack former times. Vet the writer that I quote Ne%er wrote a nature note ; Neither is he one who begs First of all take 40 eggs. What's the news of which I speak ?• Why, four murders in a week ...

... STRANGE INSECTS A. Gregory, Fleet Air Arm, sends It nature note to his f amtly at Lainbeth Street, Atherton, near Manchester: Of all the queer creatures I've met in this land of Paradise it is the praying mantis. It is about six inches long, with a ...

... took steps to cover the pond over with wire netting just in case the bird should return. Herons are very fond of goldfish. Nature note: Herons, which are not unlike storks in appearance, have a long sharp bill and long legs and toes. with the claw of the ...

... the Aquitania last Aliht. Said Mr. Osmond: We have just Rot to succeed because we have not enough money for our return Nature note ØF a hundred townspeople who So into the countryside, 99 behave well, and one is a hooligan. Thus the Duke of Devonshire ...

... Henry Burps. Ltd.. last week The bell has rung for those babies. said Mr. Burps. 1 drive booksy haybags so many sheep Nature note ...