... Nature Notes ! When the Abergele fire service called to a fire at Brynrhydy rarian they were accompanied by a robin, which refused to leave the shelter of the Are tender. Upon arrival, the brigade found large numbers of hats being driven out of the burning ...

... Nature Notes Th. densest mass of water-crowfoot in these parts is now in flower over half the lake at Wrightingtnn Hall, between Parbold and Standish (writes EH.). It makes a wonderful sight. There were eight young coot, seven young wild duck. and ...

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... NATURE NOTES TN th# winter the tree* look different Irom those hot day* when they were one mass shady leaves. Now, if possible, they seem even prettier, and their real shapes and their delicate outlines can be distinguished against the pale sky. On the ...

... NATURE NOTES THE leaves are all unfolded now and that tinv bird the titmouse earns easy living when the little insects crawl out of the opened buds. Head up, h' down, they hang in the air; sometimes they swing from a slender twig to and fro just like ...

... Local Nature Notes A good many more days of rain are required (writes Eric Hardy), and the other day 1 paw that the mere at the Eggleston Ifall nature sanctuary, St. Helens, is less than a third its normal size, so that the great crested grebes have left ...

... Local Nature Notes Few woods look so well in winter as those near Ince Halt (writes Erie (Tardy), where the most abundant planting of dogwood undergrowth in Cheshire gives a rich, reddish-brown glow. These, thick with foxes, are on the edge ..f the Gowey ...

... Local Nature Notes In the spacious park at Winstanley Hall, between Billinge and Wigan, this week (writes Eric Hardy), the woods were grand show of bluebells and red campion, and the woodcock covert full of graceful wood-horsetail. We also found milkwort ...

... Local Nature Notes With many wild fowlers at the Weaver estuary on Sunday, the Merseyside Naturalists’ Association found wigeon. teal, golden eye, pochard, tufted duck, snipe, dunlin, big flock of coot, dabchicks and many cormorants (writes Eric Hardy) ...

... Local Nature Notes Three pairs of little tern are nesting at Ainsdale (writes Eric Hardy), where I got good telephoto records of them this week-end; last year the keeper told me their eggs were taken. Common and Arctic terns nested later than usual. A ...

... Local Nature Notes The nesting ,season as usual is providing its interests (writes Eric Hardy), and teal and redshank show further evidence of spreading their range, 'the former nesting for the first lime in one of the woodland pools at Crosby Hall, although ...

... Local Nature Notes A pair of woodcock have nested Haydock Park wood, two or three pairs of turtle dove in Golborfie Park, shoveler Wigan Flashes, and Leigh Flash (writes Eric Hardy) where pair of pochard duck and of dunlin have summered, and in June T ...