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... nature notes Forty eight species of owl to look at, and then at the end of the visit we watched flying barn owls and an eagle owl - the largest owl in the world - as you can imagine that impressed the children. I took some of them on an adder hunt one ...

NATURE NOTES

... 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 ...

Published: Friday 23 March 1906
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1532 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

NATURE NOTES

... 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 ...

Published: Friday 21 June 1907
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1473 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

Nature Notes

... Nature Notes THE weather had kept us indoors for the day so I decided to amuse Danielle by going through some old books to see what we could find. We decised a game with that brillianat book by W.B. Lockwood on the origins of British Bird Names. The ...

NATURE NOTES

... 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 ...

Published: Friday 16 March 1906
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1510 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

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Published: Friday 27 September 1907
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1462 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

nature notes

... 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

... nature notes brilliant views of a marsh harrier, with male and female flying slowly over the reed beds. One male was very confident and perched at the top of the reeds allowing us to get the telescopes on him so the children could get a close up look ...

Nature Notes

... Nature Notes OH the joys of living in the countryside! It's 3am and the bedroom windows are rattling to the sounds of a lonely vixen looking for a mate. After three hours I'd had enough and yelled through the window at her - it worked perfect, peace for ...

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... nature notes IT'S that time of year every “arachnaphobe” dreads - “spider time.” The first “monster” of the year turned up in the bath the other evening, much to the delight of the children. It was a housespider - Tegenaria giantes and really lived up ...