Shooting Seals
In the summer, as I reported at the time, local sportsmen were observed shooting seals off the coast of North Wales, partly for wantonness, partly because the bodies when washed......
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A Barren Problem On a common, which is also a golf-course, is a recess behind gorse bushes decorated with two heaps of earth. One is green with unnumbered weeds, every seed on......
Winter Visitors
The spring migration of birds is hardly affected by weather. Swallows, cuckoos and warblers come over, as a rule, pat to particular dates whether spring is late or early, cruel......
Coconut Competitors
In one cottage garden on the edge of Oxford all four tits have been seen, but for a while they were all four equally defeated in their onslaughts on a three-quarter coconut.-......
A Poacher's Genius
An old controversy about Robert Jefferies is re-aroused by the re-publication of his Amateur Poacher (Jonathan Cape, 8s. ed.). He is generally regarded as one of the founders of......
Country Life
December's Spring More and more curious results of the continuance of autum- nal warmth and damp meet both townsman and countryman. The most gullible of birds is doubtless the......
The Weakest Tit
Most of us feed our tits and some of us are lucky enough to attract all the four species : ox-eye, siggy, cole and marsh. A form of food that becomes more popular is the monkey......
Electrical Oaks
We have experienced the most surprising electrical storm within my memory. It was not so violent or curious in my immediate neighbourhood as in some parts, notably Merioneth,......
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