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... 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. The grass which grew so quickly during May, has grown very little during the cold weather which June has brought., Insect life has also received a check. Moths and butterflies are few in number as yet, though increasing, but I have seen ...
... 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 ...
... 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. Seed-Sowing Delayed. The heavy rainfall of last week, .96 inch, writes j Holmes Chapel contributor, has saturated the land, which was getting in+o a nice condition for \ sowing. Then the frost snow further stopped outdoor operations. Seed ...
... Nature Notes WIGAN OBSERVER, Thursday, July 31, 1986 7 Recently a starling was found shot dead in Wrightington. The ring on its leg was given to Hindley Ringing Team Leader, Ray Yates. A final message has now arrived through the official channels to reveal ...
... 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 ...
... NATURE NOTES. The Solace Nature- Summer is delicious in enjoyment, but spring perhaps even better, being doubly delightful; for while it is much to enjoy the present, even a? great a blessing is the prospect of the future, and most charming of all is ...
... nature notes Graham Workman will be interesting to see if he sticks around. We've ben relatively untroubled by wasps this year - thankfully. Mind you we’'ve not spent that much time in the garden. / In the wood the other day I found an absolute whopper ...
... 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. Dowsing. Mr. E. Daubeny, South Acre, writing to tiie Magazine. says: The use of the 'divining rod' in finding springs of water, has frequently been written on, and familiar to most Somersetshire men like myself. I have seen the hazel ...
... 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 ...