. The story of hedgerow and pond . The Sea-birds* Nursery are struck down by the marauding birds,and carried off to feed their and plovers from the inlandmoors fare no better, but are caught infair flight with perfect ease. When theyoung are able to fly, they accompanythe parent birds, and watch them pursueand strike their prey, and so soon learnto follow their example. And by thetime they are strong enough, and quickenough, to catch and strike down theirown food, they are driven away fromthe district altogether by the old is what always happens with allthe birds of pre
. The story of hedgerow and pond . The Sea-birds* Nursery are struck down by the marauding birds,and carried off to feed their and plovers from the inlandmoors fare no better, but are caught infair flight with perfect ease. When theyoung are able to fly, they accompanythe parent birds, and watch them pursueand strike their prey, and so soon learnto follow their example. And by thetime they are strong enough, and quickenough, to catch and strike down theirown food, they are driven away fromthe district altogether by the old is what always happens with allthe birds of prey. And though it seemsa curious thing for them to do, because,while the young are helpless, these birds,however fierce they may be, are quite asdevoted parents as any others, yet thereis some reason for this behaviour. Too 2yo. i The Sea-birds* Nursery many birds of prey living near to oneanother would soon make the smallerand weaker birds either too scarce, orelse too timid, so that it would bedifficult for them all to live. So as soonas young eagles or hawks, or any of thisclass of birds, are able to look after them-selves and procure their own food, theyare bundled out into the world to gettheir own living, and to find a freshplace for themselves, where they will notinterfere with the living of other andolder birds. Some of the bigger gulls are almostas dangerous neighbours as the pere-grines. In some respects they areworse, fiDr the peregrines only kill fairlyin the open by means of their greaterspeed and strength. But the larger gullshave a bad habit of going bird-nesting291
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