... NATURE NOTES. Migratory Bird*. good many people are interesting themselves in the migratory possibilities of birds. It » usually believed that all birds go the Smith France or thereabouts, but various authorities have proved that some travel far Central ...

... NATURE NOTES. Late Flowers. Though during the last few days we have had a taste of winter's chilling blasts, one occasionally comes across things of beauty in a country walk. The berries we shall have with us through the winter, and it is fortunate ...

... Nature Notes I REALLY enjoy old books about wildlife some of the facts are now unbelievable and especially early books from the late 1700's. This week I read about one book I would love to own just for its title. The book was written in 1658 by Edward ...

... NATURE NOTES. The Shepherd's Warning. A rainbow in the morning the shepherd's warning. We all learnt that long ago. This appallingly wet day (wrote-a valued contributor rainbow, which spanned the sky from east west, Thursday) was ushered by a magnificent ...

... nature notes tryside Act. It seems that any protection of the species could, and probably would, be opposed because or their historical significance as a pest. This does seem a tad unfair when you think of other introduced species such as brown hares ...

... Nature notes The old year ended with green woodpacker, a woodcock, several parties of siskins, and foraging cole tits in Haigh Country Park. At Worthington Lakes, RSPB member T. Morton watched two kingfishers with more than 550 gulls and a few more parties ...

... Nature Notes | IT had just started to snow as a flock of a couple of hundred gulls dropped on to Pennington Flash. Earlier in the week an Iceland gull and a Glaucous gull showed that birds were dropping in from all over the North West - there at the same ...

... NATURE NOTES. Do Grasshoppers Steer? If you study the movements of the grasshopper you will come to the conclusion that he a highly superior individual. Though he seldom more than an inch long, he covers in one stride about forty inches of space, or forty ...

... NATURE NOTES. Christmas Weather. On referring to my diaries, writes a correspondent, to corroborate what were vague recollections with regard to the weather on several previous Christmas Days, I find that the prevailing mild temperature has been quite ...

... NATURE NOTES. Term. It was bitterly cold, and it was only habit which led when had reached the city to take a rather longer way than was necessary. The seller of flowers sat hivering but cheerful. None of your kind of violets, sir. The fact is they ...

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... NATURE NOTES. Late Comers. Some of the daffodils failed us in the spring they were probably those which bad flowered la«t year and the year before. There was some talk of removing them when those which had done their duty were 'ifted out and set aside ...