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... NATURE NOTES Sea fishing In my article last Saturday I referred to the feast the gulls had after a demolition charge had been fired at Connor’s Point. Bangor, to disintegrate an old wreck. This week it is my intention to describe the legitimate catching ...

Published: Saturday 25 November 1950
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 827 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

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Published: Friday 11 May 1934
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 2 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

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Published: Saturday 10 July 1954
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 16 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

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... NATURE NOTES Oyster Breeding I have received the following letter from a reader in South Down:— Apropos your article on crate, I remember my father telling me that the green crab is the arch enemy oysters. He managed a family oyster bed in Co- Kerry ...

Published: Saturday 06 January 1951
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 282 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

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Published: Friday 08 May 1936
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 2 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

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... NATURE NOTES The pollan To most of my readers I suppose the title of this article will be meaningless, but older readers will, I am sure, identify it as the name of the so-called freshwater herring found in Ireland only in Lough Neagh. When I say that ...

Published: Saturday 13 June 1953
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 456 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

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... NATURE NOTES Ulster nature names My request to readers to send the names animals and used Water people and pecuUar to Northern Ireland has brought response from Coleraine. My correspondent tells me he was brought up near the shores Straagford Lough, and ...

Published: Saturday 07 July 1951
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 444 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

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... NATURE NOTES The farmers friend? That one of the commonest birds of our countryside should be called by wrong name nine people out of ten Is surprising. yet so it with the rook, which most people refer to as the crow. Even Lord Tennyson, in Locksley Hall ...

Published: Saturday 01 April 1950
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 502 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

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Published: Saturday 26 July 1952
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 4 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

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... NATURE NOTES FOR BENEFITS RECEIVED. Surgical Speculation and Bird Injuries. THIS WEATHER! What will St. Swithin for us this year? A few moments ago we heard a weather report as dismal as dismal could be, but surely it cannot rain much more, and there ...

Published: Saturday 16 July 1938
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 294 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

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... NATURE NOTES Looking back (continued) nie threat to our coal supplies by labour troubles at some of the cross-channel ports leads one to think of alternative fuels, and naturally peat comes first to mind. Of this fuel I wrote three years ago: Turf for ...

Published: Saturday 02 April 1955
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 357 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Nature Notes

... Nature Notes. Tour correspondent from Bundoran will find Hermit Crabs plentiful on the shore at Bundoran. Perhaps it is out of place to open old subject, but I read recently in a Canadian paper that the juice of the nettle is used green dye, also “nettle ...

Published: Saturday 06 November 1915
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 343 | Page: 5 | Tags: none