NATURE NOTES.

Waikato Times, Volume 117, Issue 19545, 6 April 1935, Page 16 (Supplement)

NATURE NOTES.

CANARIES. This afternoon we gave the canaries a bath and they did enjoy it. After they had had their bath they went to get their seod. The canaries are always singing. In the hot weather wo put a tin of water in their cages and you should see them, Peter. —Audrey Long (9). BEANS IN A BOTTLE. Last week I put some beans into a bottle, then I put some dirt and water on top or them. To-day I looked at them and every one or them har'Eurst open, with little green shoots sticking up. Putting some more water on them, I left them in the bottle. Later I will transfer them into the garden to see ir they will come to anything. t —Desmond Pratt (13). A QUICK LITTLE FANTAIL. Only the other day I saw a rantail come into the shelter shed at school chasing a fly. It flew round and round and darted at the fly. Arter about five minutes, all or a sudden the fly blundered into a spider web and the rantail darted Into the web and picked the fly out and ate it. Every year in the autumn four l'antalls come and live in the lucerne trees near our house. .For the first year or two two fantails came, and for, the last three years four have come. They often come into the house after files. —Grace Hodgson (0).

A POOR LITTLE KOTARE. One of Auntie’s cats caught a baby klngso brought it home and we let It loose In the garden. We tried !L^ ith , w , 00Cl llce ’ ®lugs, snails and all sorts of Insects, hut he would not eat lie was hurt by the cats. It was that, I think, that killed him. —Belinda Story (11). UP TO THE SUNSHINE. clematis is a climber, not like tbe £n t ,?’th V!W £ 11 climbs by means or its roots, bush-lawyer, which scrambles up am or thorns. The clematis is climber, and tendrils are modified jc& r -stalks that coll themselves spirally round the branches of trees and so draw the plant up to the sunshine. (Copied) Lewis McMillan (13). ABOUT THE BONG THRUSH. This bird builds a good nest’, outwardly k rasses . twigs, and sometimes a ““la moss is used. This is lined with a thick coating of mud or clay and, finally with decayed wood or vegetable matter! very little attempt is made to hide the nest, which is to be found in hedges, bushes, low trees and occasionally on the ground. Tho eggs, which number four erf five are of a clear greenish-blue colour marked with deep rich brown or black spots varying in size, chiefly at the large end of the egg. Laying begins In Febru—Alice Harris (12),