... • • • Local Nature Notes The necessary economies of the Corporation whereby the grass verges of suburban streets have been left to grow rank have resulted in an unusually lengthy list of wild plants now flowering in the city (writes Eric Hardy). In S ...

... vincera? the Peace al Front and S Ultaneously by tern Powers the anti-Comindangerously prophetic yPto2ram SeemS * * Local Nature Notes n Usuall y find wild flowers rt ° the ...

... and another man in a car, whom he noticed by the crossing. The driver has filed a suit for divorce. —Reuter. • • • Local Nature Notes This week's most noticeable bird migration (writes E. H.) was the heavy passage of young swallows over the city. Small ...

... • • • Local Nature Notes Whether the law of averages that • very cold winter usually follows a very wet season will apply this year awaits to be seen (writes E. H.), but the Christmas landscape should see • fine red colour of berries, judging from present ...

... • • • Local Nature Notes For over 20 years the white owls which hunt the Grand National course have nested at the corner of Aintree Lane in the barn on Rose Farm (writes Eric Hardy), and on recent nights the peculiar noise of the owlets, a mixture of ...

... * * * Local Nature Notes Three years ago I saw the first Lancashire record of the water-pipit on Fazakerley Sewage Farm (writes Eric Hardy) and amongst hundreds of meadow pipits congregated there after the recent frost, I got very close to two birds clearly ...

... * * * Local Nature Notes Three years ago I saw the first Lancashire record of the water-pipit on Fazakerley Sewage Farm (writes Eric Hardy) and amongst hundreds meadow pipits congregated there after the recent frost, I got very close to two birds clearly ...

... . . Local Nature Notes The winter scene is gradually descending upon Merseyside (writes and true to the calendar the little greyish November Moth emerged this week from the birch plantations in Childwall Wood, and, like the larger, more ochreous-hued ...

... * * * Local Nature Notes The countryside around Wigan and St. Helens is very beautiful now (writes F. H.). Harebells, campion, and hawkweeds colour the hedgebottoms with blue, red, and gold; hazels are with nuts and catkins, and the Liverpool Naturalists' ...

... pocket, the reveller said: Gents, let me introduce you to my pocket bottleship.”—” Beachcomber the Daily Express. * * Local Nature Notes A new Cheshire nesting haunt of the great crested grebe is on the Weaver, above Frodsham (writes Eric Hardy), and of shoveller ...

... * * * Local Nature Notes Ermines or white stoats occasionally come our way in winter, and the other evening one crossed the road into my headlight near Mailing (writes Eric Hardy). Little grebes or dabchicks w’ere recently in two curious incidents. At ...

... That fly,” he chuckled, walked in and out of my hand exactly two hundred and sixty-five times !”^— Tatler. * * * Local Nature Notes The Merseyside Naturalists’ Association, which decided to publish its new book on the Birds of the Liverpool Area, this ...