... RIPON NATURE NOTE DESPITE the mild winter a white (ermine) stoat was seen in the Jast week of January on the Westerdale road. This coat change is not uncommon when there is a prolonged snow period, but unusual in such a winter as this. Another unusual ...

... «. SUITE COVERS only ees NTEED efunded. \ds and look around. La.m. to 6-0 p-M: ORELAND STREET JAD, BLAC KPOOL ~) ¢ this nature) note that CILLOR D didate, w HALL, ing. 1 h.. ° o I I J ars. os n J A et ...

... Nature notes TO continue in this natural history vein, we have often heard gardeners say that birds sit watching them plant seeds and, when the coast is clear, descend to unearth and eat the seed, and to dust-bath in the carefully prepared plot. We have ...

... NATURE NOTES IT IS not unusual for cats to kill weasels, but so far as my experience goes it is not usual for them to eat either weasels or moles which they have caught. Mr. H. M. Spensley, of Lane House, Burneston (Bedale), tells me: “Our cat this week ...

... NATURE NOTES A Thirsk reader suggests that it be well worth while to collect and place on record the local names given to most wild plant and flowers. This has been done with birds and I quite agree the titles given by country folk in Yorkshire to trees ...

... Nature notes J3IRDS have done many sirange things this year.—or is it only that we have seen more of these hal ypenings? A thrush has buillt a nest, with a good many twigs in it, quite high in a sycamore tree in onr garden. There we have had nes! s much ...

... Nature notes WE know that the maternal instinct is strong, that a tom-tit would defend its nest against a tiger, and that a ewe will for a day or two piteously bleat laments for her dead lamb. Among the creatures of the wild, however, affection in life ...

... NATURE NOTES WE HAVE progressed a long way in our study of birds and animals since the days when naturalists believed that swifts and swallows buried themselves in the mud in ponds and hibernated during the winter; and since the time when it was stated ...

... NATURE NOTES MISS E. R. ENGLAND, ot Netherby Lodge, is a bird lover, but coming as she does from a town, she cannot always identify the birds which give her so much pleasure. There are many of us, bred and born in the country, who occasionally have to ...

... Nature notes VWWRITING on_the last day of September Mr. J. R. Ferguson informed me that he had at Glebe Farm, Dalton-le-Dale, a second nest of swallows with three young. He asks: “Is it usual for swallows to have two hatchings in one season? I always ...

... your guest to join you for what will undoubtedly be a special evening. One that you will both enjoy and treasure. Not naturally noted for being romantics, this is the one occasion when British men-can push the boat out a little. But if your Romeo needs ...

... DOG STORIES I AM INDEBTED to the same correspondent for some interesting nature notes. He says: “Five years ago I had a sheepdog bitch which one day caught a trout in the beck at the bottom of White Horse bank. I took it home and my wife had it for tea ...