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... NATURE NOTES i 12.161 pairs of wading birds on 13,100 hectares (that’s 32,370 acres to you and me) of the Southern Isles’ machair were found by teams of searchers fromthe Wader Study Group and the Nature Conservancy Council between April and July of last ...

... Nature Notes BOUNTEOUS MAY SO very many are the wonderful sights, sounds and perfumes of this the Sth month of the year; May, that one could write volumes extolling its beauty and charms and appraising Mother Nature for yet another of one of her masterpieces ...

... NATURE NOTES .. THE SHETLAND TIMES, FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 1971 By Robert Tulloch Shetland representative Lerwick which had a nest with eggs on 15th January!.l.understand that the young haiched but that the local cats didn't obßject to the unexpected — if -out ...

... NATURE NOTES The gale force winds early in September not only brought down many trees and wrought much damage. They also brought with them many surprises in the bird Cormorants and shags, usually seen in ones and twos appeared in half dozens and more ...

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... Nature Notes “The summer days ‘are come again; The birds are on the wing: God's praises, in their loving strain, Unconsciously they sing. We know who giveth all the good That doth our cup o'erbrim: For summer joy in field and wood, We lift our song to ...

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... NATURE NOTES . e Robert Tulloch Shetland representative to the R.S.P.B. The storms experienced in Shetland during the first three weeks or so of March have been called “the worst in living memory,” not perhaps so much for their severity —bad though they ...

... NATURE NOTES A symptom, if we needed one. of the kind of winter we have had so far, is the unusually large number of Little Auks which have been wrecked since it began, remembering that, for every one found. there will have been many more undiscovered ...

... Nature Notes HERALD nature expert, Norman Fordyce, continues his article from last week. They can dive and stay under for half a minute using feet and wings in propulsion. A party in flight have been seen to form a “V formation. In the breeding grounds ...