20 MAY 1938, page 17

The Latest Arrivals

The Ice-saints see the arrival of the latest migrants. Birds arrive on our shores in all months of the year. There is a to and fro passage that is continual, very nearly......

Country Life

May-time Disasters The most disastrous of all the frosts that have fallen on England for many years occurred five days before the festival of the Three Ice-saints, of whom......

A Dove's Meal The Greediest Of All The Birds, Though

they do not trouble most gardens, are the ring-doves. Happily they are quite as fond of the early leaves of several forest trees as of cultivated garden crops, though on due......

A Blue Scare An Unpopular Bird In Another Garden, As

indeed in most gardens that it frequents, is the jay, whose taste in green peas as well as in small eggs and young it is hard to satiate. Many sorts of devices have been tried......

In The Garden Up To This Date The Garden Has

owed more than usual to the very common flowers. For a number of weeks by far the most beautiful thing in our garden has been a low bank (with a sweet- briar hedge on the top)......

An Immoral Cuckoo

The unpleasant character of the cuckoo is, I fear, further blackened by a modern instance of its selfish behaviour. Last year a pair of water wagtails, whose nest was built in......

Tree Sense Our " Tree Sense " Is To Be

further stimulated by a conference en trees held by " the Men of the Trees " at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, from July 16th to 2 St. German trees as well as Empire trees are to......