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... NATURE NOTE SHAMBLING in Poisoned Glen Down around Bunbee last week and found myself in the Poisoned Glen. Was at once struck by the large flocks of Brambling wintering there. Very probably they were searching for beechmast in this wooded area, although ...

... NATURE NOTE. THE HERRING ‘YAST shcals of Sea Herring are bere, Following incalculable nurders of tiny lobster-like crustaceans, the calni, on which they feed, they have arrived at the spiwning grounds off our coast. Boon each adult female will deposi ...

... NATURE NOTE. The rook (Continued). In my article on St. Patrick** Day I asked reader* to let me have their experience as to whether rooks are harmful or otherwise to fanners. I have received quite lot of replies, and here is an excellent one from J.M ...

... NATURE NOTE Mr. David Abbot), the Portadown botanist, writes:— Although its leaves were mown down last summer and Autumn at MaUagh's Hill, the Winter Heliotrope, or Sweet Butterbur (petasites fragrans) again sends up numerous spikes of white and fragrant ...

... NATURE NOTE& VIPERS. Two fins vipers, each 25 inches in length, hove been kilted in Yorkshire on B•rninghem Moos. YORKSHIRE FLORA. Out of a total 1,425 known species of Britiah plant* no fewer than 1,020 are to be found in Yorkshire. rED PETS. Agentrein ...

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... NATURE NOTE Twinkle, Twinkic Little Star Chickweed is an all-rounc-! year plant. It grows almost «it where: in gardens, on wasto (I and by the roadsides. M f are familiar with its strag:2 freely-branched, weak st with the peculiar hairy ning up one side ...

... NATURE NOTE& TM! IIOW LORI& polio is i. the elow-peeed soiree MOM of Imo aloe* 'Hied to the mother. IN A MARTINI RENT. Four finger -Mugs and seventeen brooches were need in the contention of a martin's nest which has been dislodged from beneath the eaves ...

... NATURE NOTE T L E The insect inhabitants of pond and Steam are now very much in evidence for evaporation, due to the sunny weather, has caused lack of oxygen, diminishing water volume and overcrowding. Our king of all Aouatic Coleoptera, the Great Water ...

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... NATURE NOTE BULLFINCHES iN FANAD FRIEND tells that the -»■ Fanad countryside “alive with bullfinches.'' This set thinking and wondering if the birds he saw were not of the Northern race, for we seldom find the Irish Bullfinch in bare districts. The Northern ...