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Mil Daily News Digest Service JOURNAL , " DATE NATURE news ....................................... ---- --............--- --... I Wide variety of bird visitors- MoM'Ki amo aumrtarn l. Potters Bar Press BARNET 72-16 M Weekly Circulation 2S.M9 t:...* u7t in local garden C90MK time ago I mentioned the periodic occurrence tf ^ (krflon crow* with white in the wings, a phenomenon which hit been noticed in the fflstre# tret tor tome ysaj* ROW. On March SBth in Leggatlt Park,----------------------- Little Heath. I saw two cvowa both of which had el- most completely white wings, and very handeome they looked In flight. Oddly .enough while I wet In Dorset at the beginning of the month. I wax walking along the top of the clifft to ihe west of Lulworth Cov when 1 taw two jackdaw* with a addition to so many birds she has regular visits from a ton who. in summer, alts at lb* bottom of the garden and naps at the crew*! There is alio a squirrel's dfrey and plenty of hedgehog*.'Atilt all pounds to me very mveh like the ideal sort of garden to have. ' good, deal of white in the wingi. On April 1st f visited the The census of rookeries in Hertfordshire that jl men tioned receplly was btlng organised Is going remark Royal Society for the Protec* ably wall and htf already linn of Birds' fine reserve at produced some intereating Arne on the edge of Poole results. The nearest rookery Harbour in Dorset. The wer-' to Barnet is an 'Wroftham den here. Bryan Pickets, is a former Middlesex resident . and member of She Hartford* shire and Middlesex Trust for Nature Conservation, who de Perk where Mr. Boy Bander- eon of Ponere 9*c-.eountod a total of over 70 neats. Tbsrookery at .Clare Hall, osar South Mimms. is stlU in exist cided to opt out of the rat ence although it now nas only race. He certainly hat no re- 1 about half the number of grcti about the change, for at nests recorded in 1961. Amt one gets the feeling of being away from it all even t the befght of (h* tourist Giving credit season, , . 1 like to see credit given ' The star bird of this heslh-' where it is due. and wben a land reserve ia the Hartford lirge industrial concern takes wiirbler and onr kindly drastic action yithout .being obliged by parching on top of forced to do o. then they some gnfir. An amusing sight . deserve acknowledgment. 1 was a fox being chased across refer to . the action taken a distant flrid by a number of early in March bv MonsantoJ screeching gulls. We also saw Chemicals Ltd., sole United" a few, adders, recently Kingdom manufacturers of emerged from hibernation, p.C.B.'s or polychlorinated lying in sheltered sunny spot* biphenyls, who have greatly on the heath. . 1 curtailed Its salsa . dt these products po at to .minimise In din garden Garden birds continue to be of interest' to local resi dents Mm. Chariton of St. Mary's Vicarage. Potters Bar., has sent me a fist of birds seen in the garden over the pest yearn and very impres sive it it too. The list Includes pheasant, green woodpecker, tawny owl, moorhen, goldfinch and a number of other species. In further environmental con tamination. ' ' The level of F.C.B. resi dues found in seabirds in recent teats is disturbingly high and while the scientific evidence ts far from conclu sive, the signs are ominous. It Is good to find that the chemical industry does have some morally responsible members in its ranks. BRYAN L. SAGE HONS 032300