... NATURE NOTE. The failure summer weather (writes Mr. 9, Banks, Portsmouth) rather ead thing, as sunshine has a great influence over human nature. Nowadays people are more naturally inclined to be out of doors. We see people walking or-riding through the ...

... NATURE NOTE. have had week of grand frosty weather (writes Mr. S. Banks, of Portsmouth), more or loss tempered with sunshine. Flowers that had begun to put forth new bode have for the tiroo received setback till winter relaxes its grip. Then we shall ...

... Nature Note ‘THE SWALLOWS RETURN They come back year after year, the swallows and martins, to delight vs with their flight. They are frail, but the power of their flight is magical. Free and swift their flight is. the fiighl of beings used to wide spaces ...

... NATURE NOTE. The few days have marked vhang ...

... NATURE NOTE M-r. S. Banks, Portsmouth, writes: I morn being mild and open, various km ...

... NATURE NOTE. Mr. S. Banks, of Portsmouth, in his note itmarks the splendid variety of recent suia-vt-r. Night after night (he writes) Uie western sk;e.-> have presented to our view pictures of uusurpassing beauty. We have now the purplo heather, which ...

... NATURE NOTE. Mr. S. Banks, Portsmouth, writes saying that those who brave the cold, damp weather and sodden ground are well repaid, for the rain has set the water running and tumbling down the little gullies on the picturesque hillsides on the south the ...

... NATURE NOTE MR. J. Bentley, the president of 4 Todmorden Natural History Society. reports the visit to Centre Vale Park of two uncommon migrants, the garden warbler and blackcap warbler. Both birds can be seen and heard -in our cloughs, g:rticularly in ...

... NATURE NOTE. Summer sunshine has come at last, writes Mr. 8. Banks, of Portsmouth. Tlie hay that lay dripping and discolouring tho meadows has been gathered in. The unmown meadows neck ago have also boon cleared, such has been excellence of the weather ...

... NATURE NOTE. chekojn mil fxankajn. donis dual 1& kuracisto, , remetis !a tri aliajn mouujon, malvarrue ♦ salutis kaj eliria. Mr. S. IVanks. Portsmouth, writes cheer- j Louis la dekkvara kaj kortegano. fully of the change in tlic weather from ‘‘dark, Lou« ...

... A NATURE NOTE. lovely the trees are upon the isides of our valleys, and how charming the landscape bgaitty, writes Mr S. Banks of Portsmouth. in The Northern Daily Telegraph. The beech trees are as lovely as ever, their branches stretching out layer ...

... Nature Note THE WOODPECKERS For some reason not easily to be ascertained, we have, during the past few years, been favoured with the presence of several species of birds which have not previously been able to establish themselves in oyy local woods. Al]of ...