... NATURE NOTE \yHAT ii true time to-morrow, 0? I rack my brains, but do not know. Two hours fast the clocks will Greenwich Mean Time; yes, that's so—■ But experts tell me—experts, ho!! The cocks will crow Two hours slow; But what about the brooks that flow ...

... NATURE NOTE Burry, aged seven, has reached that stage of his natural history when the secrets of hibernation are being explained to him, The other day he was taken to the house of 4 lady with a large family who happened to be baking. As he watched her ...

... NATURE NOTE Pilgrims of the night By John C. W. Houghton “ki-wick” of a HE sharp female wood ow! broke the over a belt of trees silvered the silence as the rising moon swirling Wharfe at Harewood. The day seemed at its end, and nature on the brink of ...

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... isticated Nature Note. T liked the account J had from a friend, who was at Lord's, yesterday (writes the Loudon correspondent of the Post '’), of how, when at the lunch inter- val several hundreds of sandwich meals were opened up, a great flock of sparrows ...

... A NATURE NOTE ON OAK LEAVES. The present is a favourable time of year & acience writer). for the observation of a curious pheno- menon of the oak tree. The under sides of a large number of the leaves are now found to be studded with numerous little e ...

... these figures, for they are disclosed by the official spokesman of the Cabinet tailor. Sidetizhts on the The following nature note on a little-known habit of the inushroom is borrowed from a leaflet issucd by a well-known firm of flooring contractors:— ...

... A Strange Mr. A. E. Pullan Burley-in-Wharfe- dale, sends me the foll owing nature note: is @ pleasant occupation visiti: nests that on a previous visit contain of eggs and are now full clamouring youngsters I note young thrushes, black- throats, birds ...

... Wharfedale Notes. Mr. A F Potlon (Burley-in-W harfe- dale) sends me the following nature note: Thad a glorions but somewhat boisterous ramble in Washburn Valley this Easter. Near Farnley Twas struck by the number of thrushes mm one field, and, further ...

... reports. The white blackbird the correspondent saw this week was Chapeltown Road, near the bottom of St. Mary's Road. A Nature Note in our columns at the time said that white characteristics would tend to disappear ;n normal cross-breeding, but might retained ...

... building their nests in the tops of the trees. his year—which they that the rooks build entirely fresh nests every not. in a nature note in Friday's“ Yorkshire Evening Post” it was po: out that the rooks are in number, and from fear of raids by birds in the ...

... thrush in a holly uh at Hawkesworth, and of _ Toad spawn is common this year. bur Mr. Peres Her ward sends me an interesting nature note. toad spawn for me in Epping Fores! ponds. he round the w toads twisting the » i. pawn, which is ia long ...