... pocket, the reveller said: Gents, let me introduce you to my pocket bottleship.”—” Beachcomber the Daily Express. * * Local Nature Notes A new Cheshire nesting haunt of the great crested grebe is on the Weaver, above Frodsham (writes Eric Hardy), and of shoveller ...

... * * * Local Nature Notes Ermines or white stoats occasionally come our way in winter, and the other evening one crossed the road into my headlight near Mailing (writes Eric Hardy). Little grebes or dabchicks w’ere recently in two curious incidents. At ...

... That fly,” he chuckled, walked in and out of my hand exactly two hundred and sixty-five times !”^— Tatler. * * * Local Nature Notes The Merseyside Naturalists’ Association, which decided to publish its new book on the Birds of the Liverpool Area, this ...

... Look, you’ve put them on the wrong feet. Jackie (reproachfully): But these are the only feet I’ve got, mummy. * * * Local Nature Notes Great crested grebes are nesting on Scotsman's Flash, Wigan, for the first times (writes Eric'Hardy), and on the four miles ...

... • • • Local Nature Notes Tne wild cherries have nude EnAr show of blossom In Knowsley Park this week (writes Eric Hardy), and at Hawarden, North Wales, last week-end, where the Liverpool Naturalists' Field Club held its opening general field meeting, ...

... utterly ruined.” Second Black-Marketeer.—“ Me. too. F.ven now. I’ve hardly got two customers to rob together.” * * Local Nature Notes If you don’t believe in paying up to 7s a lb. for mushrooms for breakfast there are lots of edible wild mushrooms left ...

... * * ■* Local Nature Notes At midnight on Sunday i stopped my cycle the East Lancashire Hoad to watch an otter swimming in the Alt (writes Eric Hardy), his mask and tail breaking water methodically as if he were hunting something; but the Alt is such a ...

... * * * Local Nature Notes Although we have now all our summer birds with us, the lateness of winter visitors in departing has been interesting (writes Eric Hardy), and last weekend I had the unusual sight of twentyone purple sandpipers feeding on the rocks ...

... rani:heel! A coal hole cover in the path was out of lace. And so was the postman. Ho •as helped out none the worse. Local Nature Notes Not all the black-headed gulls seen on Merseyside nest at Ainsdale and i Burton (writes Eric Hardy), for quite a number ...

... said, and they had to go through a similar action, they would do their best for Birkenhead and the whole country Local Nature Notes From the lifeboat slip on Hilbre Island last Sunday we watched an old bull grey seal fishing the Dee estuary, less frequent ...

... * * * Local Nature Notes The first nesting birds of the year are usually house sparrows (writes Eric Hardy). and at a cottage in Knowsley Park, last week-end, we watched a fledgling being fed out of tho nest; behind the hall, • robin with a white head ...

... fields all night as fair And bless the ripe crops everywhere, The harvest everywhere. —Mary E. Pickerlnfl. * * * Local Nature Notes In the Weaver estuary on Sunday the Merseyside Naturalists’ Association a herd of 61 swans, a cormorant, scores of migrating ...