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... NATURE NOTE Spick and Span FARMERS are busy breaking up the roll, one of the oldest activities the world of work. It (or another harvest they toll, and the smell of newly.turoed earth Is sweet Indeed. There murb clranlng.up and trimming about the gelds; ...

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... NATURE NOTE Siskins Fthe grey of dutl winter’s day the of bright colours attracted the a.ienUon as one loitered by Hie (tanks of the Dover Beck below Lowdiiara Mill. A closer view revealed the goldbanded wings, green and yellow rumps of siskins In the ...

... NATURE NOTE Timely Rescue for a Warbler's Chicks Is warm andthe moments i : lwaya the dofiller the air as aspen with k a s S weatherrthousand tremulous whispers. sunny. is the best time to Soon they subsided again and go for a stroll through Ash- once ...

... NATURE NOTE Nightingales Warning AFTER the rain, a pleasanl earthy smell mingled with the fragrance of bluebells and pervaded the woodlands._ Pigeons, in ones and twos,' overhead from the fields passed roost in the trees. and where a patch of mist lingered ...

... NATURE NOTE “White-Sunday” VERS arc It catered for at Whitsuntide; there much lo delltht the eye and charm the ear. This floral holiday, associated with blossom and (rowlnit plants. It Is thousht that was at one time known as W hite-Sunday.” derived from ...

... NATURE NOTE Murder in the Thistles ABED of watercress, crisp and fresh, growing in a stream of sparkling clarity. It was too good to miss. We had Just finished helping ourselves when a rabbit went lolloping by. not a dozen feet away. He took not the slightest ...

... NATURE NOTE Song of the I Nightingale I ALONG the stretch of road between the Craven Arms Hotel and Coombe Abbey. five tree-pipits were counted. These birds have a habit of perching in the higher branches of trees land suddenly fluttering upwards in a ...

... NATURE NOTE FLIRTATIOUS GOLD 9 IN my opinion, the goldfinch bower and settled among the is one of the prettiest birds herbs established on a heap of that flies. He is only a little roadside stones Both of them, cock and hen, were little multichap and ...

... NATURE NOTE The Sign CAME the first autumn gale which littered the woodland floor with kindling sufficient to last until Christmas. Rain followed—heavy and torrential as an old, grizzled weatherprophet said it would, but the thirsty earth soaked it up ...

... NATURE NOTE Only a Wag tail Waited ON and off throughout the gusts like last summer's bones. winter, it has been a plea- Reed buntings were about in sure to pause and pass the time plenty. Every yard or so, a fine of day with an angler trying his black-headed ...