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NATURE NOTES FROM MULL

... NATURE NOTES FROM MULL 'DESFITE THE PROTECTION GIVEN IN MAKING 1T illegal to take, kill or remove eggs of the bird, the, Lapwing (Peewit) is gradually decreasing’ in numbers in Mull. This bird is considered one of the farmers best friends, subsisting ...

NATURE NOTES The Perse Blackbird

... NATURE NOTES The Perse Blackbird During the long period of cold dry weather earlier this month a blackbird started building its nest under the caves of a house in Croft Road. Oban When the building activities of the blackie were first noticed the unfinished ...

NATURE NOTES Strange Company

... NATURE NOTES Strange Company While driving from Glengorm to Tobermory last Saturday morning I noticed, near Cnoc Fors, two birds rise from the road. They had been devouring the carcase of a rabbit. One of the birds, a buzzard, flew away to my Ilelt carrying ...

NATURE NOTES ON THE ISLAND OF LISMORB

... NATURE NOTES ON THE ISLAND OF LISMORB. The following notes taken while on holiday at Lismore, Argyll, may be of some interest The leland is situ=ted in Loch Liunhe and composed of limestone. The soil is very fertile, the name Lismore mecning * the Jarge ...

Nature Notes of a Highland Gamekeeper

... Nature Notes of a Highland Gamekeeper The Duke of Arzyll says in his foreword to the late Dugald Macintyre's last reminiscences: “Dugald Macintyre was a character, and an outstanding one at that, for such was the force of his personality that he became ...

NATURE NOTES Golden Crested Wren

... NATURE NOTES Golden Crested Wren TWo 10CAL YorßsaßY WomkErs AT Fomrr igustus, Frank Cameron and lan Grant lantation), recently found a rare bird in » course of their work. It wag identified a golden-crested wren, and had evidently n fromsen to death in ...

NESTING HABITS OF THE DOTTEREL

... dotterel never nesting helow 3000 leet above sea level. It is rather a strange comctdence, which may intervst resders of your Nature Notes, te know that an Edinburgh gentleman writing in the * Dispatch ' recently. sud he found a dotterel’'s nest in the vicmity ...

Crax Lawoxr Jouvmxai, Parr 45—1034

... Castle, Mull, is claimed as one of the clan. ier s dfon 2 Cufden 0,11, 27 g r La ~ W is name to Bl and settled Sy “Purther Nature Notes’' from Australia by Edward Louis Lamont of Lamont is a sad reminder of the death of the Ohiei since the preparation of ...

CHANNEL 4

... sold her soul to the devil in exchange for the secret of winming at cards .. 1135—CINEMA FROM THREE CONTINENTS I.3O—CLOSE Nature Notes ...