* * * * Blackbird Versus Thrush. In Some Gardens
this year—and in some wider regions— the blackbirds abound and thrushes are wholly absent. For example, in a lovely Herefordshire garden this week I neither saw nor heard a......
Marsh Pheasants.
A new product of South Lincolnshire has astonished me even more than the bulb fields, though I had seen it before and have before commented on it. One of our most thoughtful and......
The Three Icemen.
It is a curiosity of this most curious year that one of the first days that was quite free from frost was the first day of the so-called Festival qt the Three Icemen, who are......
Fretillary Meadows.
The most wholesale onslaught on a wild flower that I actually saw in progress was over some low meadows where the snakeshead fretillary flourishes. On the road, as we drew near,......
Country Life
A RECOVERED COUNTRY. Quite unusual success has attended the travelling exhibit se nt round the country by the Council for the Preservation of Rural England. Last week great......
Sensitiveness To Foul Weather. The Frosts Of This Spring...
punished the West of England very much more severely than the East. In Herefordshire, which is said to have suffered the most severely—and the frosts there fell twelve degrees......
- Lily Thieves.
During the week I paid a visit to some of the districts where the ravaging of wild flowers evoked a potent cry of protest from the Bishop of Gloucester. In that delicious......
Blackbirds Certainly Proved Much Less Susceptible Than...
is difficult to say why. Wren and robin quite defied a zero temperature, which was too much for the long-tailed tit. It was quite a relief, in regard to this lovely, most......
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