Birds Certainly Show A Strength Of Affection That May...
with a man's or a dog's. Indeed, the bird is often superior to the mammal. A number of species—perhaps more than we know—mate for life ; and many ernmples arc on record—among......
A Popular Food
Probably many people other than myself have been dis- appointed to find that birds are not as a rule fond of porridge, a form of food that is often at hand at breakfast time......
Ground-loving Owls.
Though we know this fondness of the tribe for the ground, instances continually surprise us. For example, a naturalist, walking last week across a Norfolk marsh, flushed seven......
Country Life
LAND VALUATION. A great many landowners are deep in thought and discussion —much beyond the normal—over the value of their acres. It is generally believed that next year they......
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MORE LIGHT. A letter has just reached me from a Warwickshire corres pondent who gives the news that solely owing to the discus- sion in the Spectator on more light for poor......
A Birds' Larder.
A delightfully ingenious, though simple, apparatus for holding the food we put out for garden birds has been sent to me for criticism by a bird lover from the Hassocks Orchard......
An Affectionate Pigeon.
This is the true story of a family of homer pigeons. A single bird (with a ring on its leg) appeared on the roof of a Dorset home. It presently found a mate and built a nest.......
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SQUIRREL v. BIRD. A number of correspondents—witnessing the scarcely credible spread of the alien—lament that the grey squirrels clear the bird table and drive off all......
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