... 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 lhe Battle for Winter! Food Is On I\TOW that natural food .1.11 la Use form of life is becoming scarce, a piece of fat tied to your bird sanctuary or to any other suitable place, wUI encourage those acrobats of the feathered world, the family ...

... NATURE NOTE Spiders' Webs Sparkle lie Jewels seems an *bandallanee of spiders Just now sad how lovely their webs look festooning the hedges, covered with morning dew or early frost. Sparkling jewels It for Queen Mob's tiara. The ways of spiders are strange ...

... NATURE NOTE Herring gulls are now on the move from morning until dusk. One cannot help but be attracted by their graceful movements. The way in which they come to rest upon the turbulent waves is an amazing sight. The farmer, while turning over the rich ...

... Nature note Tlsharp, clear air lay ollow, and in the light a farm stood out as frosted snow. Every quiet, except for the distal of traffic and the nervaw of sheepdogs. The snow denly early in the week. the ground to six or eigl It drifted over the rolling ...

... NATURE NOTE Geese Gaggle & Honk Across The Sky GEESE. What a magedlicent sight to watch a skein of some numbers wiggling across the wintry sky. Their honking notes the Intangible, reaching call of the wild. One of the most common species of geese to be ...

... NATURE NOTE Unlucky Bittern A dead bittern, shot recently at Barton, in the Fylde, in mistake for a pheasant. and exhibited at the meeting of the Mersey side Naturalists' Association, at the University. is the 39th specimen of this uncommon bird known ...

... Nature note A/TORE rain, -more grass, more al milk, more butter, is a saying used with caution by farmers in lowlying areas (writes M.H.). Two falls of snow in the space of four weeks have swollen rivers and brooks to their banks, and sent floodwater ...

... NATURE NOTE The wicket at Leeds was under water to-day, and seagulls revelled in the rippling pools. Evidently they had arrived, overnight, from Old Trafford. TWO DEAD IN LORRY'S SWERVE Wigan Widow In Fatal Crash INQUEST COMMENT Inquest verdicts of ...

... NATURE NOTE Herring gulls are now on the move from morning until dusk. One cannot help but be attracted by their graceful movements, and the way in which they come to rest upon the turbulent waves is an amazing sight. The farmer, while turning over the ...

... Nature Note The nature-loving lady was ' strolling in an orchard. You mustn't think the little birds a nuisance. she told her host. They are most useful in devouring insects and caterpillars. Km. he replied. It's nice to think they eat my fruit ...

... NATURE NOTE. There I. one spot in our district—the only one, to my knowledge, for many miles aroundwhi..•o that lobster-like muster. an. the any-fish, occurs. At this particular pool, curiously enough it is abundant. It progresses along the bottom of ...