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Nature Notes back
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| Many Nature Notes on
this site first appeared in the Weekend section of the Daily
Telegraph.
They were illustrated by Michael
Woods. See more of his work and contact him at www.arenaart.com.
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Quick route to:
| Birds |
Subject |
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Bathing
|
cold baths |
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Bittern
|
threat displays |
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Blackbird
|
survival of fledglings |
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Blackbird
|
partial
migrants |
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Blackbird
|
early song |
|
Blackbird
|
on bird
cherry |
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Chiff-chaff
|
autumn song |
| Crow |
early
nest-building |
| Curlew |
curved bill |
| Dawn
chorus |
|
| Dove,
turtle |
return and
decline |
| Duck,
tufted |
winter flocks |
| Fieldfare
|
name |
| Goose,
greylag
|
landing manoeuvres |
| Grebe, great crested |
family care |
| Greenfinch |
eats cones |
| Greenfinch |
clever? |
| Kestrel |
hunting technique |
| Lapwing |
spread out
to feed |
| Lapwing |
display
flight |
| Linnet |
needs seeds |
| Mallard |
pair early |
| Martin,
sand |
nesting in drains |
| Martin,
house |
sunbathe after roosting |
| Martin,
house |
fledglings
grounded |
| Nestboxes |
Nestbox
week |
| Owl,
little |
|
| Owl,
tawny |
hoot by day |
| Owl,
tawny |
winter
territory |
| Owl,
barn |
flight
feathers |
| Pheasant
sounds |
crowing and
flapping |
| Redwing |
arrival |
| Redwing |
on bird
cherry |
| Robin |
adopts wrens |
| Rook |
early pairing |
| Rook |
gathering
sticks |
| Rook |
shooting
display |
| Smell |
can birds
smell? |
| Song |
preferences |
| Sparrow,
house |
'wedding' |
| Starling |
murmuration |
| Starling |
on bird
cherry |
| Sunbathing |
strange
behaviour |
| Swallow |
first of
year, status |
| Swallow |
torpid youngster |
| Swan,
landing |
landing
technique on water |
| Swan,
mute |
sounds |
| Swift |
speed of
flight |
| Swift
flight |
circling in
thermal |
| Thrush,
song |
& snails |
| Thrush,
song |
song |
| Tit |
mixed
flocks |
| Tit,
blue |
fledglings |
| Tit,
longtailed |
early nesting |
| Tit,
longtailed |
nest-building |
| Treecreeper |
split family |
| Turnstone |
feeding |
| Wagtail,
pied |
tail wagging |
| Wagtail,
pied |
migration |
| Winter
birds |
from
Greenland |
| Woodpecker,
great spotted |
hides from sparrowhawk |
| Woodpecker,
great spotted |
nuts and
anvil |
| Woodpecker,
green |
on bird
cherry |
| Woodpigeon
|
eats leaves |
| Wren
|
roost as a family |
| Wren |
adopted by robin |
| Wren |
nests in
stable |
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| Mammals |
|
| Bat,
pipistrelle |
sopranos |
| Fox
|
feeding on pears |
| Fox
|
mating season |
| Rabbit |
courtship |
| Seal,
common |
living in a river |
| Seal,
grey |
living in a
river |
| Squirrel,
grey |
storing walnuts |
| Squirrel,
grey |
digging up
nuts |
| Squirrel,
grey |
black or
melanic |
| Stoat |
and rabbit |
| Vole,
field |
population |
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| Insects |
|
| Alder
fly |
life-cycle |
| Aphids |
honeydew |
| Bee-fly |
|
| Bee,
flower |
courtship |
| Bee,
flower |
male
roosting |
| Bee,
leafcutter |
nesting |
| Bee, mason |
nesting habits |
| Beetle,
lesser stag |
in firewood |
| Bumblebee |
at
Christmas |
| Bumblebee |
and comfrey |
| Bush
cricket |
flightless species |
| Butterfly,
holly blue |
in garden |
| Butterfly,
painted lady |
immigration |
| Butterfly,
red admiral |
hibernation |
| Butterfly,
speckled wood |
male combat |
| Butterfly,
swallowtail |
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| Cockchafer |
abundance |
| Cranefly |
caught by
spiders |
| Cuckoo-spit |
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| Devil's
coach-horse |
can bite |
| Dragonfly |
hunting |
| Flies,
clustering |
enter
houses |
| Ladybird |
escape routines |
| Moth,
cinnabar |
colour and
poison |
| Praying
mantis |
preying and
mating |
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| Other animals |
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| Harvestman |
unusual
species |
| Mussel,
zebra |
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| Newt-great
crested |
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| Snake,
grass |
mating |
| Spider,
garden |
catching
flies |
| Spider,
daddy-long-legs |
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| Sponge |
freshwater |
| Thunderworm |
climbing
plant |
| Toad |
blown up |
| Zander |
alien fish |
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| Plants |
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| Autumn
colours
|
red
pigments explained |
| Fairy
ring
|
on lawn |
| Tree
lungwort |
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