... „ Nature notes POND LIFE Visitors to the seashore can seldom resist the lure of pools left by the ebbing tide, and gaze entranced at the varied small lives which go on in them. But an equally varied and perhaps more interesting scene offers itself In ...

... Nature notes Birds is Winter We cannot think of the countryside without its birds, and even In Mater their lively compantoooklP our walks In bare s are never dleat. Mews when not in full eon they have a wide range of calls and as yountry folk can lase-side ...

... Nature Notes TRUE to our British character we find plenty to grumble about nowadays, not least at the disappointing weather. Yet despite cold wind and sparse sunshine the world out-of-doors goes eteadily on from season to season, making do' with whatever ...

... Nature notes THISTLES Of all he eetls which persist in the farmer's fields, he hat.ls thistles more than most oth. - r5. Yet the thistle is king of weeds, of ioyal colour, size and bearing. Scotland has adopted as a national badge, uncomfortably sported ...

... 1 Nature notes CONIFERS %AO veit — WHEREVER trees grow there is beauty, for they are always lovely, whatever their kind, whatever their surroundings, whatever the season. British people are very tree conscious, not so much because of their Umber value ...

... Nature notes ON THE COMMON Alp rrHE name common reminds us • of Medieval days when each village had its piece of common waste land on which all the villagers could pasture their animals. There were certain other privileges. They could gather fuel ...

... Nature notes eit, EVERCIREENS pyre J T is in late autumn, when moat of ow trees are newly bare, that we begin to appreciate those which have nbt shed their leaves, and because of this they are called evergreens. They show up in wintry woods, green and ...

... Nature notes MELLOW 0 FRUITFULNESS JOHN KEATS spoke of Autumn •-• as season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, and when Autumn is actually with us this phrase can be fully appreciated. The early morning mists lie veillike over the fields, to be dispersed ...

... Nature notes ' MORE LOCAL TREES ALTHOUGH not a well-wooded region, our locality has some splendid trees, with almost every British tree and not a few foreigners well represented. Doubtless, these are the remnants of the vast forests which once clothed ...

... „ Nature notes In a Lamb MARCH can be, and often is, a month of extreme contrast, as the old saying about the Lion and the Lamb indicates. The soft Spring weather which bowed In this month may not last; treacherous cold and frost may still be to come; ...

... 'CORONA ' NATURE NOTES , : • . • k •• • ' .I4L • • %- - r • The BAT Like some other sayings, '• As fruit-eating. The old Saxon blind as a bat is really quite name ' Flittermouse ' best misleading. Bats' sight is describzs the bat it flits actually ...

... Nature notes Our Wild Orchids Although the name orchids makes us think ur the exotic flowers or topicai wrests, or tn. bizarre inhabitants or the ricn man's consery a toi y, we hav c many species or uu..n grown._ wild in uur own count, y, even own ...