... NATURE NOTE Only a Wag tail Waited ON and off throughout the gusts like last summer's bones. winter, it has been a plea- Reed buntings were about in sure to pause and pass the time plenty. Every yard or so, a fine of day with an angler trying his black-headed ...

... Nature Note Harvest Of The Trees WALKING the side of the hedgerow fencing the wood Is accompanied much nutting and crackling underfoot Here, fallen from the boughs overhanging the path, the harvest of the trees lies In great variety. Husks ot horse-chestnuts ...

... NATURE NOTE Piglets of the Hedge-Bottom WARM and showery weather suits the hedgehogs, being favourable to their quest for food. Perhaps, when coming home front country walk at dusk, you will glimpse one of these little animals convoying her “piglets- ...

... Nature Note Feathered “Vikings” ANT day now the nitnre■A lover wenderlnc In Helds bordered Jewelled hedgerows msy welcome the earlier platoons of fleld-fares, reconnoitring like advance scouts of the hosts of winter visitors dne to arrive shortly. There ...

... NATURE NOTE A Cornfield Tragedy WITH every lumbering sweep' the binder ate deeper into the standing crop until only a narrow spit remained. Then. as the last proud panicle of oats fell before the knives and neatly dropped in sheaf on the stubble. the ...

... NATURE NOTE On a Dull December Day O NL ye Y ar t r h e e ma d i r n e e g a s . of the olc Woods d i eWnlerlTlatcahegirtclirm coppice before spinneys were bare and brown. was waist-deep in crisp, crackling Forlorn and deserted, the nests bracken. in ...

... NATURE NOTE Pine Cone Mystery IN a quiet, untrodden corner of ragged Scots pines where the IN of southern Warwickshire, a ground beneath was strewn with large private estate of woods and similarly treated cones. Someplantations stands well out of times ...

... Nature Note Dapper Finch ONE of pleasing features of a winter alk Is that von never lack flash bright colour off-set the dull monotones of grey and brown In the hedge-bottoms. It may be the black and white magpie, the blue and yellow the titmouse, the ...

... Nature Note Summer Noon Sl'N'-BBIOIIT nnon bird* mute lu the fnloen of the summer’s life. Drawer hum of Insects In the irccs, the “croorrim uf rln(-dore. Across the taller the hills dance In the heat-waves; the rim of landscape seems all a-shtmmer. In ...

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... NATURE NOTE Did you know that the lapwing is an extremely useful bird to the farmers ? It eats obnoxious grubs, such Answer To To-day's Anagrin (See Page Two): POINT BLANK. ...

... NATURE NOTE Pirate Was 'HEIUtY TREE COTTAGE at %.-) the far end of the village is a picture. Strangers stand and stare; cameras click; and an artist of repute even begged to set up his easel on the side lawn. Flowers abound everywhere and bust now plums ...