. The story of hedgerow and pond . 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 th
. The story of hedgerow and pond . 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. The Sea-birds* Nursery on their own account whenever theyare hungry, which is nearly always. In-stead of catchinof fish for themselveslike honest birds, they hunt about anddevour the eggs of their neighbours, andswallow their helpless young ones wholelike so many pills. Sometimes, however,a flock of terns will combine and drive therobber away from their there are the robber gulls, theskuas, which not only devour the smallersea-fowl in the same way as the pere-ofrines, but sometimes watch them indus-triously fishing and then swoop down onthem and compel them to disgorge whatthey have caught, and promptly eat itthemselves. They are as bad as thepirates which used to infest the seas informer times, before they were hunteddown. I
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