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... NATURE NOTE Did you know that the lapwing is an extremely useful bird to the farmers ? It eats obnoxious grubs, such Answer To To-day's Anagrin (See Page Two): POINT BLANK. ...

... 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; ...

... 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 PARTRIDGE'S NEST ON CANAL-SIDE ;SOT once. but many times 1 . 1 have we heard it said that partridges give off a strong scent easily detected by the sportsman's dog. Until recent 'happenings gave reason for doubt. this oft-repeated assertion ...

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... 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 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 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 On a Dull December Day O NL ye Y ar t r h e e ma d i r n e e g a s . of the olc Woods d i eWnlerlTlatcahegirtclirm coppice before spinneys were bare and brown. was waist-deep in crisp, crackling Forlorn and deserted, the nests bracken. in ...

... NATURE NOTE Pine Cone Mystery IN a quiet, untrodden corner of ragged Scots pines where the IN of southern Warwickshire, a ground beneath was strewn with large private estate of woods and similarly treated cones. Someplantations stands well out of times ...

... NATURE NOTE Meal for the Thrush IN summertime a drab, After a deal of shouting the ancient, many - crannied droyer has his charges on the garden wall becomes a galaxy of move again and left surveying colour. From end to end it is the damage. Dosens of ...