11 JANUARY 1935, page 16

Country Life

In Trust A tract of land of peculiar beauty in the famous Gwynant Valley, along the shores of the lake between Capel Curig and Beddgelert, was put up to auction some little......

More Big Birds

How rich a document the diary and notebook of a watcher can be is very apparent in this report, " Wild Bird • Protection in Norfolk," edited by Dr. Sydney Long, himself a fine......

The Cost Of Preservation

It is, I think, no secret that the National Trust had a great desire to save this Welsh valley, and especially the farm bought by Mr. Williams-Ellis. Their frequent inability to......

The Watcher

The annual report of a smaller and a local Trust emphasizes one item of cost in land ownership whose object is preserva- tion. The Norfolk Naturalists Trust, much the largest......

Docile Tits

In very many places the tits, especially the great tit, have learned to puncture the cardboard lids of milk containers ; and thereafter to enjoy the creamy surface of the milk.......

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The Country Diary All country diarists continue to add unheard-of records to their winter pages. In..niy garden a large bush of rue (well worth growing for the unusual bluish......