... NATURE NOTES I remember once agreeing — against my better judgment — to propose a toast at a wedding, and on asking an experienced public speaker for a few tips, was told “Never start by apologising for your own shortcomings” So, to explain the nonappearance ...

... NATURE NOTES . . 1968 will surely be looked back upon as one of Shetland’s vintage years. For birds and bird watchers, indeed for almost everyone who was blessed with the health and who had the inclination to enjoy an outdoor life, the pleasant summer ...

... 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 . 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 Robert Tulloch Shetland representative to the R.S.P.B, We had been discussing which picture to use with this month's notes and were in a bit of a spot because most of the topical ones had been used before, when on the last day of May came ...

... NATURE NOTES .. . By Robert Tulloch Shetland representative to the R.SP.B. I ended my last notes by expressing high hopes that we might see large numbers of migrating birds in the next few months, but as far as numbers go this has so far been a d ...

... NATURE NOTES . . . i+ will be no surprise to readers ~ find that this much overdue “Nature Notes” will be mainly .hout one bird — or rather one camily of birds, and I think they o justify being called the .mous Fetlar Snowy Owls! To those — and they are ...

... NATURE NOTES . . | Any hopes we may have had | that the mild January weather ,{ would continue on to give us an early spring have been prettly | well dashed as April came in with | snow still lying on the hills and |a bitter north wind blowing. | Even ...

... NATURE NOTES . . .. . Bobby Tulloch, Shetland representative to the R.S.P.B. When I first started working for the R.5.P.8., I remember thinking that at last I would be able to fulfil an ambition I hadto visit every one of Shetland’s hundred islands. Eight ...

... NATURE NOTES .. . For people Who take pleasure in watching and learning about birds, the month of May is — in Shetland at least—often one of the most interesting and exciting in the year, In the first part of | the month we can look for the lmigruting ...

... NATURE NOTES . . Quite a lot has taken place since I wrote my last Nature Notes, not least being an early and interesting movement of migrants about the middle ot April, the dairy at Holligarth, East Yel].| It is a little bird, streaked brown above and ...

... NATURE NOTES .. . After the hustle and bustle of May and June, with all the nesting activities, the migrants and the birds-watchers, July and August by comparison have been rather quiet months. Quiet, that is, in the sense that no freak! weather conditions ...