... NATURE NOTES. Autumn has come in with mild warm weather, and the only evidence of the almost wintry conditions of the past fe%s weeks is in the havoc wrought in the gardens. and in the carpet of dead leaves by waysides and in woods. Nature is busily engaged ...

... NATURE NOTES. The grass which grew so quickly during May, has grown very little during the cold weather which June has brought., Insect life has also received a check. Moths and butterflies are few in number as yet, though increasing, but I have seen ...

... NATURE NOTES. Winter is undoubtedly still with us, but with the lengthening days we see many signs of the caning springtime. Rooks are regular visitors at their old rookeries-and, in their less amatory intervals, clamorously assert their right to 01l ...

... NATURE NOTES. The weather, at the time of writing, :s making amends for the vagaries of the past few weeks, and is gladdening alike the hearts of the Nature lover and the Agriculturist. The shrill call of the curlew is still heard over the moors, but ...

... 100 ond NATURE NOTES. iver ead THE FAUNA OF THE OLD o, and Noe that the evenings are Brett better opportacity of a stroll en: He able fron home. wits © end the Bowers «¢@ for pond-life, ; eould the vert The Corsnire fe | dectue any trened of butcsy, eae ...

... NATURE NOTES. Spring opened v ith seasonable weather and it was a great pleasure to hear the joyous chorus of the birds. Lapwings are, now to he seen performing those acrobatic tumblings which is their peculiar method of cc unship. I thought I saw a pair ...

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... NATURE NOTES. So far as vegetation is concerned -the season is on the wane. Fewer plants will come into flower each week, though wild flowers will be plentiful and in great variety for many weeks to come. Honeysuckle has flowered freely this year, covering ...

... NATURE NOTES. Dull skies, rain, and cold winds are still characteristics of the weather, last Satur day beik►g a splendid exception. The summer naw drawing to a close has given us an abnormally small crop of mushrooms. It it rather difficult to assign ...

... NATURE NOTES. Ni;hta are getting colder now, and area v the wvch elms near lower Hodder bridle ..,e changing colour and warning us of the coming Autumn. By the sides of two brooks in the district. we have colonies of the broad-leaved ragwort; this is ...

... NATURE NOTES. Goklen August! the month of the ripening corn and purple heather; the month which gives us many signs of the coming autumn in the shape of ripening fruits and late flowers. In August the binds seem to have tirelj of singing, and scarcely ...