... NATURE NOTES Swifts were observed have arrived over Berwick Friday, and large numbers oould be seen wheeling and beard screeching in the evening, particularly in the north part of the town. ...

... NATURE NOTES. I thought I kenw all the trees in the Planta- tion. But last November, noticing one clothed with leaves when nearly all the others w bare, 1 made & closer inspection and discove: red that it was an alder. Nut one of those stunted specimens ...

... NATURE NOTES. While the Office of Works staff were engaged work the ramparts last winter weasel was observed the Cannon Mount near the Kavensdowne Bowling fircen. Not until last we ek had the workers any idea there were more than one. but then a procession ...

... NATURE NOTES With the colder weather town gardeners seeing once more many of their feathered friends, which, during the summer months, were either absent or merely casual visitors. The other day when was cutting up wood, saw n from a tree, a robin came ...

... NATURE NOTES A rather remarkable,place haa been chosen by pair of starlings to build their nest. They have chosen the end of a 7S-ft. jib a steam-crane which is being used daily in Doddington Quarry. Evidently they had built their nest when the quyrymen ...

... NATURE NOTES wo Now when the rivers are small people may v ler what attraction there is at tt caulds Tweed and Whitadder for so ma nv gulis ana other bires, The reason 1s not far uo seck. A walk along the cauld top, sb uld it be bare enough, will show ...

... NATURE NOTES. A swan was killed under unusual circumstances on the Tweed at Mllnegraden a few days ago. A pair swans with two young ones—the young swans, by the way, are conveyed up the streams on their parents' backs—resented the intrusion of a solitary ...

... NATURE NOTES. Swallows were seen nrrlve at Waren Monday. April. Terns arrived on the same day. At Kelso. Mr Hogarth. -Kelso Mill, observed swift on April, which almost a record for the early arrival of this migrant. Swallows were also seen on the Tweed ...

... NATURE NOTES SCROGGIES AT SCREMERSTON along a lovely and little used lane lalel.. I was pleased see one two wiki apple ;re»s the high he.lgerowy bearing crop of round, red-checked fruit. Country ts.\s used call these •* *’ apples, winch, though vcr\ bitter ...

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... NATURE NOTES The prospect* of game seems shore the average. Partridge have hatched well, the dry spell having helped greatly. Pheasants, too. are well forward. Heavy rainfalls now are against the young birds. Spittal Woman’s Sudden ...