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... Nature Notes EARLY BIRD SONG | WELCOME MUSIC AFTER THE FREEZE-UP To go outdoors on a mid-February morning | was indeed like stepping into spring. The temperature had made an upward bound, and after the monotony of anow-coveredl fields and woods to see ...
... TV Nature Notes EAGLES AT PLAY GAMES WITH PAPER AND FOX CUBS AvtnoucH eagles are rightly regarded asl amongst the fiercest of our raptorial birds. | their whole lives are by no means spent in relentless pursuit and Kkilling. ~ In a recent wireless broadcast ...
... Nature Notes EARLY NESTERS RAVENS IN RESIDENCE ON EAST COAST O~ a rocky promontory, jutting into the Minch on the coast of Skye, a pair of ravens very early each spring repair their nest. '{Me'be are firm r;s{donu in the district; their orebea eed, may ...
... Nature Notes WOODLAND MUSIC BIRDS IN SONG IN THE LOTHIANS THe evening of March 8 might have passed for April 8, so mild was the wind, so fiint the s.m.tn;t sun. The eountrr-de, however, lacked that sparkle which on{ April brings, and which is the outward ...
... Nature Notes “ PSEUDO-SLEEPERS OYSTER-CATCHERS OF THE EDEN ESTUARY RecentLy a friend and 1 spent a couple of chill but interesting hours in a hide he has built on a spit of sand and mud in the Eden estuary. It was flood tide, and we had not long to ...
... Nature Notes UNUSUAL ACCIDENT STAG'S FATAL FALL FROM HIGH RIDGE WHiLST we were climbing a snow-slope in the Coiré ruadh of Cruachan recently. 14 stags appeared in line above us on the main ridge between the highest peak and the Drochaid ghlas The leading ...
... Nature Notes ZOOO “RHINOS.” BLACK SPECIES AT CORSTORPHINE Tuere was a legendary lady who, on first seeing a giraffe in a zoo, declared with emphasis, 1 don't believe it!” She might have been even more incredulous at her first sight of a rhinoceros! Few ...
... “ Rook Marauders ” Cheviot Place. Motherwell, . April 14, 19§2 Sir,—l was astonished to read in your issue of 12th a Nature Note by “R. I. M. in which he says that “ with brazen effrontery they (the rooks) began to pick for the seeds under the very nose ...
... Nature Notes BORDER VISITORS WARBLERS, FLYCATCHERS AND WOODPECKERS SuMMER migrants are arriving earlier | than usual in the Borders this year. A | sandmartin, the forerunner of a great num- | ber a week later, was huvklni flies over | Tweed on March 22 ...
... Nature Notes IN FRESH WATER MARINE VISITORS AT LOCH SHIEL , West Highland fresh water lochs are infinitely poorer in fauna of all levels than th. neighbouring sea. It is curious, therefore, to find a regular migration of marine animals to fresh water ...
... gave £4B for eleven eighteenththose days rents were paid mostly. grain. lcemury spoons. 7 610 7 16 10 S. Oats—- 3 8 3 &9 Nature Notes ...
... Nature Notes RARE PLANTS LOCAL DISTRIBUTION IN ABERDEEN AND ANGUS DuriNG the past quarter of a century I have watched the dispersal of the ivy-leaved wall lettuce—a very local denizen so far north—along a mile and a half of dry stone dvke lining the South ...