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... NATURE NOTES NATURE NOTES OF BUTTERFLIES AND BIRDS The French call it “L'Aurore’ or ‘‘Dawn’ for the lovely flush of orange on its upper wings. In English it is known, more prosaically, as Orange Tip. Many of these little butterflies fluttered over the ...
... NATURE NOTES NATURE NOTES THE ISLAND MEADOW On “‘the 29th of May, at six in the Afternoon. 1697. the wind at S .E.. Martin Martin embarked for St Kilda from the little beach on Ensay in the Sound of Harris.’ Two hundred and eighty years later, almost ...
... NATURE NOTES NATURE NOTES AN ISLAND WOOD 1t unborn who planted hey we llow Torr o Hone L vherbh eoa as | kno se In Lew ...
... . NATURE NOTES NATURE NOTES TOLSTA HEAD An ambition was realised today when | walked out to Tolsta Head from North Tolsta. Not an overweening ambition you might say for it entails a walk of only a mile and a half over more or less level ground, but the ...
... Nature Notes THE really hard Winters experienced at the turn of the century were described in such graphic detail in the rich “Doric” of Central Aberdeenshire, by that Master of local poetry “Hamewith”, the late Charles Murray. It is 50 sad to relate ...
... Nature Notes by Norman Fordyce ...
... NATURE NOTES BASKING Sharks were once quite common in the Minch where their iarge dorsal fins were conspicuous in all but rough seas. Nowadays one scarcely ever hears of one being seen there and the recent stranding in Broadbay is all the more remarkable ...
... NATURE NOTES are vicious killers. Don’t let your dog into the water after them as they will literally go for the jugular and can tear the throat out of even large animals. Their dens are in holes in the bank or in the hollow under a waterside tree, and ...
... Nature Notes by Norman Nature NOteS Fordyce grey, with a dark tail, and whitish underneath. The dress of the female is more of a chestnut red-brown with light grey underparts. Her red cap is diagnostic. I just have had another report of Wintering Blackcaps ...
... NATURE NOTES a ragged appearance with numerous holes. The caterpillars pupate in July and hatch the following May. Cowslips are in the same family as primroses and occasionally a hybrid can be found between the two species and it is called the false oxlip ...
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... Nature Notes Red-billed éueleas in the world, making it the most abundant species. There were 5 to 9 thousand million Passen?'er Pigeons in America until the white man arrived and slaughtered the lot; which just goes to show how beastly we can be when ...