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... NATURE NOTES fairly large was also making for the water, and I hurried over to intercept it. A crab with a shell about six inches lonf was scurrying from a shallow pool to catch up with the receding tide. The crab was somewhat circular, and had spines ...
... NATURE NOTES Three balls of fluff, ten to twelve days old, likable to look at as are most young birds; but, being hungry and parentless, at times they appeared pathetic to an extreme degree. They were the young of kestrels, and although half dead owing ...
... NATURE NOTES * 11.1111.1111.-..lllllllli’lllll’ .* quite remarkable .in such slow creatures. The ability of large ones when climbing: stone steps is' outstanding. The last one I found was very big, and was just ambling along a small pathway in a wood ...
... NATURE NOTES When quite a youngster I was always attracted to this large flower, 2} to 3 inches across, and was somewhat shocked at the distaste it aroused in some adults. Later I had a garden of my own where the smaller Convolvulus arvensis was a bad ...
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... NATURE NOTES. This week I have to record the departure rem Penrith of the swifts, or derdins, herb hare fur the past three months been tar wrleome guests. There are few aigrants that do more. good in the wort I. malt. I.a noise about it, than live le‘ilins ...
... NATURE: NOTES. This week an observer, Mr. Hodgson Harrison. writing to ate from the Barnard Castle district, guys: As I always read your notes with pleasure in the Herald every week, I thought it would be of interest to you to knon that as I was out ...
... NATURE NOTES Lately, however, it has shown signs of increasing in some areas—though not to the extent it did previousl{. Where it was once possible to see eight or more circling in the air at one time, there are now only a couple or so. The other day ...
... NATURE NOTES *nnn-n-u“anmnnmm* Frogs appear to have very good eyesight, so that when I do find one that has not already seen me I keep perfectly still, for movement is more noticeable than form. This one I noticed was examining ‘a snail crawling up the ...
... Nature notes TO continue in this natural history vein, we have often heard gardeners say that birds sit watching them plant seeds and, when the coast is clear, descend to unearth and eat the seed, and to dust-bath in the carefully prepared plot. We have ...
... NATURE NOTES Near the base of a large. beech tree was a raggedlooking plant, with its leaves divided into ‘'many fingers. I stopped’ to look -again, for I noticed that some leaves had five fingers, ‘while others had six or seven, all on. stalks standing ...
... NATURE NOTES * EERRSNERRRE R AR E s aa X But there is one insect that I find terribly repulsive above all others, and that 1s the common Sheep (or Dog) Tick. Possibly this is because the first one 1 ever found was stuck firmly to the soft skin inside ...