The Relic Signs Of A Busy Community Add To The
wonder. Next door are, or were, two long, magnificent avenues leading from nowhere to nowhere. Numbers of old fish-ponds succeed one another down the slope. The immense and......
One Effect Of The Sanctuaries Has Been To Breed A
respect for the rarer birds in the neighbourhnod. So: thoughtful has been the management, and so little exclusive the entrinc.i to the sanctuary that its particular gospel has......
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These spacious reserves are restoring to the East Coast almost as many species as Hereward the Wake knew ; and the old chronicles of Crowland and that neighbourhood make the......
Bird-ringing.
Just twenty-one years ago a regular practice of ringing birds (mostly in this country nestlings) was set afoot ; and over a quarter of a million birds of most species have been......
I Think It Was Lord Grey, Who May Be Called
one of the -fathers of the water-bird sanctuary, who noticed that some - duck became tame directly they entered the pale, though they remained wild. even at a hundred- yards......
Country Life
WORTHLESS ACRES. Some precise figures, on a subject to which I have often referred, have just been given Me ; and they may serve as comment on a remarkable letter recently......
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THE SANcrueav. Hew very considerable a debt we owe—that is, if we take any interest in either birds or scenery—to those landowners who set aside large areas of land as......
* * * Spring's Recovery.
Now that spring has really blossomed we can see how much smaller than we feared are the ill-effects o.? hall, snow and frost of Easter. The chief sufferers, perhaps, were the......
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