... NATURE NOTES. The Coo *' Notes of the Birds. The allusion the other day to the cooing pigeon brought to my mind what consider, though possibly erroneously, a sound rarely heard mean the coo of a starling. the old garden of which I often write, some ...

... NATURE NOTES. th c a , awthorn is flower, * m is ngled with 0 T hll he Earless blackthorn Soni - do not U get the full effect of \ X ahead. I. \ H »t ty. V ly finish I, , eSh re correspondent, Ski ,t(i(i ' earliest sown conditions, has I ,ooksn better ...

... NATURE NOTES. Local Bird-Life. strolling near (be upper reaches the Derwent the other day a nanty bird lonem wteae pb-ased to see a number of I hwk-beaded gulls. Though not really rare bi«4, liie black-headed always interesting one when seen far away ...

... NATURE NOTES. ha, *ntcd. fr u this district, writes a cor• .■ *'th th nes for more than H 10, i P*ion of very light shower i- consequence, the land **« #\**taat . Vo lraDle s,ai for cropping, 'J!hi * s as been taken full advan■ * °Ps that escaped the ...

... NATURE NOTES. The Golden Gors*. The golden gotse bloom* practically the whole peer round, but never it welcome than thaw dark of winter. At the mm is covered with bod* bunt Into ni»«f the first bright day. Already some atieltered cobmk beginning to htootn^ ...

... NATURE NOTES. Japanese Crane in Cheshire. Lord Newton writes to the Field from Lyme Park: It may interest some of your readers to 'earn that two white-necked (Japanese) cranes were hatched here on June 2nd. The parent birds have been in my possession ...

... NATURE NOTES. Beauties o! the Sunset. As the daye grow shorter and the evening twilight conies on earlier day by day there as yet no abatement in the wondroue effect produced by the setting sun. Indeed the sunsete the fall are, in my opinion, more beautiful ...

... NATURE NOTES. Early Nesting. A thrush's nest with four eggs was founu Hale Barns, Altrincham. Sunday. A keen observer of nature in the locality says this least a week earlier than he has noted such an incident any previous year. —-♦ The Weather! may be ...

... NATURE NOTES. Wheat Sowing Delayed. The wet weather, writes a Holmes Chapel con tributor, has interfered With the sowing of wheat on heavy land, so that there still some to be sown. Farmers who placed their potatoes temporarily in the fields are now carting ...

... NATURE NOTES. A Winter's Walk. With the coming of the frost of the last day two, the aspect of the country has undergone great changes. Garden plants are now hanging in damp and glistening blackness, the flowers ruthlessly killed. A walk along -country ...

... NATURE NOTES. Social and Solitary Wasps. Social wasps are well known and readily recog nised. They have a most powerful and painful sting, but their habits are very distinctly beneficial. The nests are built of paper, which the adult insects make by chewing ...

... NATURE NOTES. Ribbon Growths. A curious freak in plant growth is the produc tion ribbon growths, and this is more often seen the sunny south, where, with a better climate plants have more opportunities of showing that tendency. Not long ago I found a ...