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... NATURE NOTES Sea fishing In my article last Saturday I referred to the feast the gulls had after a demolition charge had been fired at Connorâs Point. Bangor, to disintegrate an old wreck. This week it is my intention to describe the legitimate catching ...
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... NATURE NOTES Oyster Breeding I have received the following letter from a reader in South Down:— Apropos your article on crate, I remember my father telling me that the green crab is the arch enemy oysters. He managed a family oyster bed in Co- Kerry ...
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... NATURE NOTES The pollan To most of my readers I suppose the title of this article will be meaningless, but older readers will, I am sure, identify it as the name of the so-called freshwater herring found in Ireland only in Lough Neagh. When I say that ...
... NATURE NOTES Ulster nature names My request to readers to send the names animals and used Water people and pecuUar to Northern Ireland has brought response from Coleraine. My correspondent tells me he was brought up near the shores Straagford Lough, and ...
... NATURE NOTES The farmers friend? That one of the commonest birds of our countryside should be called by wrong name nine people out of ten Is surprising. yet so it with the rook, which most people refer to as the crow. Even Lord Tennyson, in Locksley Hall ...
... NATURE NOTES The thrushes The thrush is probably one of the most familiar birds to the average person, but how many, people know that we have no less than five types of the family resident in, or visitant to, the British Isles. They are the missel thrush ...
... NATURE NOTES Looking back (continued) nie threat to our coal supplies by labour troubles at some of the cross-channel ports leads one to think of alternative fuels, and naturally peat comes first to mind. Of this fuel I wrote three years ago: Turf for ...
... NATURE NOTES Flavours and savours (continued) Pepper naturally leads us on to curry, but this powder is by no means all pepper, but Is also a mixture of such spices ground ginger, tumeric, and coriander. I have been told by an Anglo- Indian that most ...
... NATURE NOTES The Martins Last week our subject was the swallow, and this week I intend to write little about his two cousins, the house martin and the sand martin. Both are summer visitors to these islands and both hawk for their food on the wing like ...
... NATURE NOTES Autumn The autumn is now with us and the days are colder —the nights very appreciably so and our summer bird visitors are going or have gone. The swallow family is already greatly depleted in numbers. and our old friend the cuckoo and the ...