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... Nature Notes Nature Notes Nature Notes LYING in bed the other morning we were listening to a couple of crows calling to each other in the woods. It was just before dawn and it reminded me of story told by the Inuits or Eskimos of how the “Crow brought ...

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... nature notes nature notes natur It's starting! Only one or two at the moment but it's a promise of what's to come - 1 hope. The dawn chorus is being practiced by a blackbird and a wren with the occasional accompaniment of a mistle thrush and a robin all ...

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... Nature ‘Notes Early February's bitter winds knifed across Rivington and brought snow to the Douglas Valley: only small amounts compared with West Yorkshire and Derbyshire. g TP The hard weather, however, did not put an end to the daily song of the familiar ...

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... nature notes the morning, or how about a barge trip looking at our local wildlife while other activities will include: family pond dips, rock climbing, story tellers, treasure hunts, fun days Wigan Flashes open day, etc. ...

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... nature notes three metres away, so felt safe enough not to slide into the water and disappear which is their usual means of escape. They originate from central and south eastern United States, with literally thousands of infants being imported to pet ...

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... Nature Notes A pair of red squirrels have been seen in a local wood, and the Wildlife Warden at Haigh Country Park, Graham Workman, tells me that up tp three pairs of wood warblers have nested in the Park. Five pairs of great crested grebes have bred ...

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... Nature Notes IT was minus six degrees centigrade when I left the cottage. The woodlands had been painted by frost and the freezing fog was still low on the ground. I wasn't expecting to see much, it was more of an early morning wander than a birdwalk ...

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... Nature Notes THE unexpected snowfall last week gave us something to talk about. The footprints on the lawn (or the large area of mowed moss and weeds that I call a lawn) left a good clue to a battle royal that had happened sometime during the night. The ...

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... Nature Notes THE first green woodpecker call that I'd i‘ heard for ages in the woods heralded the worst electrical storm so far this year. The I bird lived up to its name of ‘Rain Bird alright | when not ten minutes after its call the heav- } ens opened; ...