... Local Nature Notes The nesting ,season as usual is providing its interests (writes Eric Hardy), and teal and redshank show further evidence of spreading their range, 'the former nesting for the first lime in one of the woodland pools at Crosby Hall, although ...

... Local Nature Notes Despite its increasing lack of undisturbed country, the Wirral has stiU • wealth of wild flowers (writes Eric Hardy) and last week-end 1 found over sixty plants in flower at Arrows Park and Irby. including marsh-violet by the stream ...

... Local Nature Notes The only herd of red deer in this part of the country is in Knowsley Park (writes Eric Hardy), and recently I counted 166 of them in the deer forest. in addition to over 50 fallow deer. The hinds and calves are in one big herd, and ...

... Local Nature Notes There have been magnificent flights of swans recently (writes Eric Hardy)—lB together over Frodsham marsh and 11 over Nantwich, where a flight of 80 wild geese was also seen. A peregrine falcon on Ilightown shore has been feeding on ...

... Local Nature Notes In Wirral this summer goldfinches were at Arrowe Park, Meois, Brackenwood Park, and Bromborough Golf Course, where the shelduck was seen (writes Eric Hardy); marsh-gentian was unusually abundant with over 300 flowers at, Oxton Golf ...

... Local Nature Notes The great gale made havoc in Childwall %Coeds the hill (writes Eric Hardy), bringing down 17 big [revs— 11 grand lwiclies. 4 Spanish chestnuts and a couple of wych elms—while a party of tre.-sparrows and a very early brambling ••eight ...

... Local Nature Notes The rarest birds in Lancashire this winter have been a couple of smewssmall, black and white fishing seaduck —which appeared on the great Pennington Flash at Leigh, and nave now gone (writes Eric Hardy), although last week there were ...

... LOCAL NATURE NOTES At Simonswood Moss, wildest country near Liverpool and within . walking distance of the 19 tram terminus, we found nesting curlew, wild duck, blackbacked and herring gulls, long-eared owl, night jar and scores of yellow wagtails (writes ...

... Local Nature Notes Over a thousand wildfowl of half-a-dozen species and four great crested grebes were the White Man's Dam when the Merseyside Naturalists’ Association visited Knowsley Park last Saturday (writes Eric Hardy). Jays, sparrowhawks, nesting ...

... Local Nature Notes At Loggerheads last week, with H. N. Southern, the distinguished- Oxford University naturalist, we found nesting dippers with young grey and pied wagtails, jays, nuuatches. bullfinches, swallows, housemartins, marshtit, treepipit, a ...

... Local Nature Notes Sunday’s exceptionally high tide crowded birds along our shores at ITeshfield and Hoylake (writes Eric Hardy), and the Dee Estuary meeting of the new Merseyside Naturalists’ Association (8.E.N.A.) found 11,176 birds of 22 species. Mr ...

... Local Nature Notes A new bird and a new plant were added to our Liverpool area records this week (writes Eric Hardy). Wednesday afternoon my telescope picked out a Kentish plover feeding with the waders and gulls on the ebb tide below Dingle Point, a ...