... Local Nature Notes Sixty-five wild flowers, 23 different birds, swarms of the brilliantly crimson day.-flying, six-spot bumet-moth and plenty of silver-washed fritillary butterflies were the record of Ainsdale Nature Sanctuary (writes Eric Hardy) in the ...

... Local Nature Notes There are far more fieldfares and redwings, even on the edge of the city like Chi!dwell and Allerton, than there were last winter (writes Eric Hardy), and last Sunday, at Redesmere, between Knutsford and Macclesfield, a flock of 63 ...

... Local Nature Notes There were pintail on Puddington marsh last week, and a good number of wild duck have been flighting over Parkgate (writes Eric Hardy), while at high tide on the Dee marshes the other night I heard crowds of mallard, wigeon, teal and ...

... Local Nature Notes After a winter of abundance only a few scaup duck remained at West Kirby Marine Lake and in the Dee mouth off Hilbre, this week (writes Eric Hardy), and amongst the handsome turnstones below the lifeboat slip I watched a few purple ...

... Local Nature Notes A field of buckwheat in flower by Eccleston Lane, Prescot, is a rare sight and attracting the bees (writes Eric Hardy), while a friend sends me plant of chicory or succory from Poverty Lane Maghull, a wild flower I last saw at Ainsdale ...

... Local Nature Notes The rarest birds in Lancashire this winter have been a couple of smewssmall, black and white fishing seaduck —which appeared on the great Pennington Flash at Leigh, and nave now gone (writes Eric Hardy), although last week there were ...

... LOCAL NATURE NOTES At Simonswood Moss, wildest country near Liverpool and within . walking distance of the 19 tram terminus, we found nesting curlew, wild duck, blackbacked and herring gulls, long-eared owl, night jar and scores of yellow wagtails (writes ...

... Local Nature Notes Over a thousand wildfowl of half-a-dozen species and four great crested grebes were the White Man's Dam when the Merseyside Naturalists’ Association visited Knowsley Park last Saturday (writes Eric Hardy). Jays, sparrowhawks, nesting ...

... Local Nature Notes The Southport district is still one of our best nature study centres (writes Eric Hardy), with its winter flocks of pink feet and white-fronted geese amongst the biggest in the country, and Hesketh Bank guns have told me of an odd flock ...

... Local Nature Notes Fourteen great flights of wild geese thrilled the meeting of the Merseyside branch of the British Empire Naturalists Association in the Ribble estuary last week-end (writes Eric Hardy), and Mr. W. Bunney and Mr. C. Bramwell took some ...

... Local Nature Notes Fourteen great flights of wild geese thrilled the meeting of the Merseyside branch of the British Empire Naturalists Association in the Ribble estuary last week-end (writes Eric Hardy), and Mr. W. Bunney and Mr. C. Bramwell took some ...

... Local Nature Notes We are at that interesting period where the countryside shows a mixture of winter and summer signs (writes Eric Hardy); the first of the spring migrants have appeared, chaffinches are singing freely in the city parks and blackbirds ...