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... NATURE NOTES. The Fate of the Sparrow. Is it possible that the delicious ortolan of the Parisian menu can be nothing but the apotheosis of the much-abused sparrow? If so, why then are not the poor little birds of the street and the hedgerow allowed to ...
... NATURE NOTES. Welcome Showers. The rain fell last week-end, writes a Holmes Chapel contributor, has done the cropi .an immense lot oi good, though in this district has not reached the roots some of the crops. • For instance, the soil underneath potatoes ...
... NATURE NOTES. Plants in Cold Weather. Your correspondent's remarks about of dogs in bad weather might with forethought be applied house plants. Quantities of charming women fill their rooms with flowers and heat the day time, and entirely ignore the effect ...
... NATURE NOTES. Cats and Intellect. People who are not interested in cats refuse to believe that the intellect of the cat is in any way on par with that of the dog. or that either animal hae connected powers of reasoning. Ths other day lady awakened her ...
... NATURE NOTES. The Wild Goose. What a curious flying squadron the wild goose makes! It is not any means common bird the industrial county of Lancashire, and to see this bird in all its grandeur one need visit the Norfolk Broads, where wild fowl of all ...
... NATURE NOTES. The Lengthening Day. The lengthening day the end nf the road looking westward. Towards sunset the pack of gold and crimson clouds daily creeps tether towards the cardinal point. In another rnonth or so the sun will set due west, and aftsr ...
... NATURE NOTES. Partridges Still in Covey. Wandering through the field® this week, see the partridges still in coveys feeding along the hedge hanks, though the season for the shooting of thi® game closed on the Ist inet. noticed one covey oi no less than ...
... Nature ‘Notes Early February's bitter winds knifed across Rivington and brought snow to the Douglas Valley: only small amounts compared with West Yorkshire and Derbyshire. g TP The hard weather, however, did not put an end to the daily song of the familiar ...
... NATURE NOTES. Cracklings in the Wintry Hedgerow*. The heavy snowfall in the north, the thaw, then the frost, had a peculiar effect the hedgerows along the country highways. They stood like stockades of white coral. The fresh air and the succeeding frost ...
... NATURE NOTES. Two robins have chosen a strange nesting place at Fletton, Peterborough. Close to a house door a garden watering-can hangs on a nail, in this they have made their home and the hen bird has laid her eggs. Enemies. Signs of life in the garden ...
... NATURE NOTES. The Bird Exodus. Perhaps some naturalist may be able describe the character of the swallows that start first in the general exodus? They certainly do not all take flight together, nor they stream slowly away like ordinary fashionable people ...
... NATURE NOTES. ti S . u . slight nt sunshine. The - 15 maximUm ' *e*t J** h 'or the first time this we beard it for the pied ,' 1 ? life on the lawn, up, dead, with its (1 V- f Part T 'all IU? - There Wf of 'he hed are faced with »rieties-hari's- N ...