For NATURE LOVERS

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22551, 5 November 1938, Page 7 (Supplement)

For NATURE LOVERS

Wide-Open Eyes Needed

Springtime and early summer bring many joys to the lovers of-nature. You should keep your eyes very wide open and you will find many wonders. Here are some of the things other girls and boys have seen: — •■-

A Hawk's Nest When I was away for my holiday I went to see a hawk's nest and there were four baby hawks in it.

They were all different sizes. When touched they lay on their backs with their feet in the air and looked very fierce with their mouths open. —MARGARET McDONALD, Wainui. Starlings On the way to Waiau there are some steep cliffs with a lot of little holes in them. Starlings have made

nests in them. When they hear a noise they all fly out. and sit in the •trees; when the noise has gone they all.fly back to their little, homes. —JOAN STODDART Jaged 8), . . • . Culyerden: L • - Four In. a Row

This' morning there were four goldfinches on the clothes line. —'MATE GOLDFINCH, Hinds.

The Baby Thrush One morning I looked out of the window where I saw a baby thrush that could just fly. Its mother was feeding it. The mother would run along the ground and put' its head on one side and listen. Then it

would peck a worm out. The young bird was waiting and opened its beak wide and the mother bird put the .worm in.' "Then. the. mother looked? tor another. and the young bird opened its mouth for the worm. --BRENDA HAMPTON (aged*6)> Methven.

Dinner Time One day when we were digging round a walnut tree our teacher noticed a young magpie calling. After our teacher, Robert Henderson, and .myself. had.hidden out of sight of the magpie we waited* to .see'if i the .old magpies would, fe^d

it. ; Soon we noticed an , old mag-.. pie walk up to the young one with a worm in its beak. It dropped the worm and as:: soon as the: young magpie had opened its mouth the other magpie picked up, the worm and jiut it in. Then, after the magpie had walked away „w« went back to the garden. « i —'MATE AMOS; LEE, L.8.H.. A.B- ---\ Halkett, The Magpie's Nest ; ; This mornirig"l went over to the plantation and' I found a. magpie's nest. It was made of "pieces d£ wood, wire,'string, amd dirt.' There were four babies and they had-no feathers, "which made them* queer.

c They : Owere out to their mother,, btit .she did not hear them because rshe >it looking for food. 'lf she "had seen 'me she might have

pecked me. Her nest was in a fork of a pine tree. - —'MATE GOLDFISH Caged 12), Hind* ABOUT WORMS .

. One day as I was riding, my bicycle home from school! I saw some worms which were wriggling along the road. I stopped and watched them for. a while and I saw something that I had,' never seen before. The worms, curled their tails round to one side and then to the other. —MARGARET GRAHAM, A 3. ...'.'■',"-..' (aged 8), Brookside. MY PONY Tinker Bell is my pony's name, She has a nice long creamy mana, Come and see her, Lady Gay,

And ride on her some day. she's JsniaU she's very strong; I hope yovr legs are not too long. —PAMPARKINSON (aged 10), .I. \yj Amberley House.