... watching mother duck proudly sailing with her brood you seo a swirl and the number is reduced. Boon, says a correspondent of “ Nature Notes,” we shall be able to say “a big pike awallowed one, and then there were none.” Extraordinary progress has been made in ...

... water, it will perhaps be interesting to know that, where fish is a bait, this objection is overcome. A correspondent of “ Nature Notes” has a cat which is very fond of catching the small and ecemingly unattractive fish in the Thames. He is a large silver-grey ...

... inch-and-a-half foot- the first carriage. e ul are the ways of ante, and in go more than'as a eort of contorted ly of our own “ Nature Notes” recall \S riment of a well-known ecientist who ...

... disappeared into her future home. Neither in marriage nor birth were any festivities undertaken, “H.F.” contributing to Nature Notes in the ‘“‘Scotsman” gives us a peep nto a thrush’s larder: ““One of our commonest garden pests in the South of England ...

... r, indeed, anywhere the Yorkshire and Lancashire borders. Perhaps some your correspondents who occasionally contribute Nature notes to your paper can say whether they really are uncommon the district, whether my “find” was merely incident my cycling rather ...

... put down at about £900,000. Altogether it is estimated thas there is af present invested mm golf a fortane of about to Nature Notes,” Y. A. Pitts relates that one morning in the spring there was a great mturbance among the birds in the garden. “ The indow ...

... canes, and there might technieal desertion every week, though desertion in fact. Old August,’' writes Mr Ranks in his Nature Notes from Colder Valley, has not kept up its reputation of fine summer weather. It has been extremely cold and wet betimes. ...

... than Brighton, which stands at 17. Liverpool and Manchester head the list with 24 and 23 reepectivelv. o-days Nature Note: The nature notes of your correspondent, Mr 8. Banks, add great interest to a ramble in the country (writes “Cyclist ’), and make ...

... t for the little ones who sing - We arc but attic children weak, Nor horn in any bigh (*tale. To-day's Nature Note: While reading the Nature Notes in your paper this week, writes Mr It. Stansfield, Ifurstwood Villa, 43, Cypress-road, Southport, I thought ...

... only in direct tramway communication with Blackburn on the on© hand, but with Rochdale and Oldham on the other. To-day’s nature notes: are having extremes of weather just now. One good thing —it is keeping the ground well moistened, hence the brightness ...

... of the Christmas season, may perhaps be most fittingly described as a Dance of Death, is related by a corre spondent in Nature Notes who, on pass ing a country field a few days ago, was greatly amused at witnessing several turkeys evident!: in the act ...

... were dispersing Information to be iven at the Town Hall.—Advt 'o Corresponpents. T. N. Walker: Your letter will a r in “Nature Notes” in next Saturday’s “Blackburn Weekly Tele- gra ph MILL BREAKDOWN AT BLACKBURN. —A eerious engine breakdown at Mcesre John ...