... * * * Local Nature Notes At the turn of the tide on Thursday my telescope picked out four black-tailed godwits on the mud below Dingle Oil Jetty (writes Eric Hardy). On the tideline at St. Michaels lay a 7ft. Sins, rib of a Greenlank whale, and I understand ...

... * * * Local Nature Notes The Government-encouraged campaign against the hordes of wood-pigeons, which are very destrucive to greens, continues (writes Eric Hardy), and the crops of ten birds shot the other day North Wales, near Northop, were crammed with ...

... • • • Geed4yo. Coldish Apropos the mention in Our Nature Notes of Tuesday last, regarding a heron seen at Machu'', I saw one OR Tuesday of last week here in my garden. writes an Aughton resident. Happening to go into my lilypood garden. at about 8.15 ...

... * * * Local Nature Notes At Ince Blundell deer park, last Saturday, the Merseyside Naturalists' Association counted 46 fallow deer (writes Eric Hardy), more than half pure white and the rest the dark brown Roman race. Three white and four brown fawns ...

... • • • Local Nature Notes Wherever there is water bird migration Is now noticeable (writes E. H.), and at Hilbr• Island and the Dee Estuary last weak-end I saw some big flights of knots and dunlin and large parties of turnstoaes, sanderlings, oyster-catchers ...

... doubtle-s this course will followed at the Abbey in June. Pony’* ZatolUffoaet. eorresj>ondenl writes from Abbotsbury to Nature Notes The other day when were having lunch heard strange scratching sound, and then as if someone were trying to turn the handle ...

... Know It isn’t being called a hyena that riles Mussolini; it is that he has nothing to laugh at. Birket Head, • * * * Local Nature Notes The Pennington Plash at Leigh, where the Merseyside Naturalists’ Association met last Sunday, has been frequented flocks ...

... * * * Convoy The dogs hark hut the caravan passes —Proverb. * * * Local Nature Notes Shoveller, great-crested grebe, a big flock of teal, plenty of common wild duck and golden plover, and an unusually tame heron that permitted close inspection most the ...

... * * Local Nature Notes A couple of seals were fishing off Hilbre lifeboat slip this week when we watched purple sandpipers and turnstones on the reef (writes Eric Hardy), a scpter duck in the bay and sea-rocket flowering freely the island. A- nuthatch ...

... * * * Local Nature Notes Simonswood Moss is bleak and windswept (writes Eric Hardy), but in the rain the other afternoon 1 watched harrier quartering the dykes, a stranger, for the gamekeeper had not seen it previously. These long-legged, longtailed ...

... included in its extensive repertoire of song. The other night, Nomad. the well-known broa dc aster, who writes the Echo Nature Notes. seen in the picture with Mrs. Parker and the dog, heard this unusual performance and described the mimicry as remarkable ...

... • • • Local Nature Notes My aquarium has a number of prawns we collected the other evening. not from the sea, their usual haunt► (writes Eric Hardy). but the brackish ponds on the common between Leuowit Lighthouse and the Embankment, when a fascinating ...