... NATURE NOTE. A remarkable illustration of Nature's wonderful protection of the defenceless is supplied by the case of the guillemot's gg. This bird usually lays its eggs on a ledge of rock or cliff, about one of the most unsafe places possible you would ...

... Nature Note On Wednesday morning, a reader tells me, his attention was drawn to dozens of rooks circling round his hoHir hnrt ...

... Nature Note. It has been an extraordinarily early Spring with us this year. By the middle of March the quickset hedge was covered with bread and cheese, as we are wont to call it, where the elms and beeches have protected it from the wind. A day or two ...

... Nature Note. Perhaps you did not know that the wild-cat exists in the British Isles. I don’t mean the domesticated variety that has yun away and gone wild, but the real wild-cat, whose remotest ancestors have never basked in the luxury of a kitchen fire ...

... NATURE NOTE, A Dover newspaper recently contained the following paragraph:—“A very fine specimen of water otter was caught on the slope at the root of the Eastern Arm this week one of the workmen. It is being kept tub near the scene of its capture.” ...

... NATURE NOTE. A pair of blue tits have brought forth a family of five little ones in a garden in Cromwell Road. At Seasalter a partridge lias been incubating “clutch” of no less than eggs (surely a record) and has led away her little ones, which can run ...

... Nature Note. I have received many requests to continue my nature notes, and as I am little in the habit of resisting importunate solicitation, I have arranged, at great expense, to continue them in the following weeks. I rose early one morning last week ...

... Nature Note. At about this time last year I came upon a hedgehog covered with grass and dried leaves and looking rather sorry for himself. He’d emerged early from his winter’s sleep, roused by a stray sunny day or dug from his cubby-hole deep in the foot ...

... NATURE NOTE OWING to the very mild weather of late and the abundance of rain, snowdrops have already made their welcome appearance in at least one sheltered garden at Milford. ...

... NATURE NOTE. During the recent spell of sunshine fields have presented a glorious sight those who cared stoop and view tn® grass from low angle, lor each blade grass was pole from which floated silver streamer. These Heating threads gossamer, so flimsy ...

... NATURE NOTE. Corporal Gordon Smith (3477) has found three birds' nests close to his bonne—s robin's nest, with four eggs, the nest of thrust, with three eggs, and a btoekklrd’a nest with two eggs. HOW PAUL LEARNS GEOGRAPHY. By UtMMi of Ota* its. Auntie ...

... NATURE NOTE The sportsmen and beaters have retu home after good day’s sport-* consternation in the partridge Many the birds are route «d. kiti'ben. I>ut the others „ scared, and contused. As the sotting, strange vontnlonutal soun heard over the scene ...