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... NATURE NOTES. In addition to the shortening days, there are other signs of the approaching end of summer. Birds generally are othermg . in large flocks, and swallows are preparm2 for their migration. Big masses of ragwort with lesser quantities of the ...
... NATURE NOTES. At the Summer Islands, Ullapool. Ross-shire, a large seal measuring 6ft. gin. has been shot by an Inland Revenue officer. That Seotch exciseman belongs to the breed who, when happy, want to go out and slay something. AN ARTFUL SNAKE. Seeing ...
... NATURE NOTES. Tin Ktowataa. Thar* Is always something haunting about the oburriag of that sombre night-swallow the nightjar; but never was I more conscious of this than a few evenings ago, when, just as the sun was setting. I stood on the summit of an ...
... 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 ...
... NATURE NOTES. I have little to chronicle this week. A few flowers have appeared to show that the season is still progressing. In damp pastures we have the brown flowers of the common rush, and the sharp-flowerel jointed rush. Hemp agrimony, a big marsh ...
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... NATURE NOTES. PLANTS AND SUICIDE. Do plants ever commit suicide? The County Gentleman makes a suggestion of the kind in the case of some of the clematises. You can (it says) plant a clematis which does admirably for a few months, even for a few years ...
... NATURE NOTES. The weather is favouring the gathering of the hay harvest, and farmers are everywhere taking advantage of it. Vegetation by main roads is covered thickly with dust, but old country lanes are now at their best; roadside grass-plots are veritable ...
... 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 ...
... NATURE NOTES. Ile water shrew is one of the lesser-knows British mammals, a wild creature with which sot one person in a hundred thousand has any acquaintance. Yet it is far from being so rare as some people imagin , !, and along the banks of many Ananias ...