... NATURE NOTES. The outfits of threshing tackle are now payina their annual visits the farms and their arrival is the signal for great activities. Manj hands 'are needed to run this wonderful machinery, and its musical humming has a very pleasant sound ...

... NATURE NOTES The welcome rain last week has made » won derful difference in the appearance of the try. The pastures are once more beautiful green colour, and the cornfields are rapidly ripening to harvest. One of the most beaut.fu sights and sounds in ...

... nature notes. To a lover of Nature there is nothing much more interesting than to scull to some quiet spot on the Avon, keep very still and watch. There is a rustle on the bank, and a bright brown water vole comes close to the boat. moorhen brings her ...

... Nature Notes Pages From a Diary MARCH 15th—We came to river, and we couldn't get across,’' the old song has it. But this case was the Avon Blackdown Mill, not only running in full spate, but also skipping furiously across the narrow road between the two ...

... NATURE NOTES The excessively wet season has had the usual effect keeping all vegetation very green. There are few autumn tints to ‘be seen anywhere, the exceptions being the horse chestnuts and the beeches. No other tree quite equals the beech for beauty ...

... NATURE NOTES Of all the cheery little creatures with which we are 'blessed, surely, first place must be given to the Rabin. He seems to have sung especially well this wet and dreary autumn. No matter how wet the day he sings from early morning till late ...

... NATURE NOTES. A beautiful specimen of the bee orchis was sent to me this week, and I informed that quite a number of them are growing on the railway bank near Harbury; the eleven species that grow in this country I have only seen five, all of them have ...

... NATURE NOTES. The hunting of the Otter can be very interesting and exciting. A few days ago the otter hounds were round Wootton Wawen and district. Otter spears or poles are the chief requisites for this sport, and are of great assistance to the hunter ...

... NATURE NOTES If the forest trees are late in donning their autumn garb, our gardens are brilliant with the manv varieties of Michaelmas daisies, roses, dahlias and chrysanthemums. one looks down the gardens surrounding the glorious old mansion at Compton ...

... NATURE NOTES. The confidence and audacity of wild birds and animals when their offspring are young is generally known, but occasionally a special case attracts our attention. Last season pair of magpies built their nest too close to the house to be good ...

... NATURE NOTES. From an economic point of view the Swallow is a great friend to agriculturists an insect destroyer. It lives entirely on insects, most of which it catches on the wing, though it may be seen taking them from the surface of the water. A pair ...

... NATURE NOTES. Badgers are rather uncommon in this country, and the unusual sight of two enthusiasts digging away at a badger’s hole, a few miles from Warwick, ought to have attracted more attention than it did. In Scotland it is frequently found and is ...