Show ilch blackbirds birds eat trout rout cot cows s are fed on fish TI those ose who study nature find that age long traits and aad habits ore are being 14 sonic borne cases modified and lo in others entirely changed change the writer knows of a caso CABO where a bird had its habits changed by altered te m d conditions A t trout r ou t f i s 1 i e ry was R s estabill esta established till shed on an estate in scotland darlig certain s seasons e aso n s a I 1 large a r g e number b er of the try fry or young trout are crowded together in shallow ponder vs PS their inclination Is to keep together just where the water ente enters re one day tt A blackbird drinking 49 at one of abeso ponds got hold of a young trout probably accidentally but found it was excellent feeding A blackbird does docs not by get its food from tile the water but this particular one having tapped a new source of food supply returned to it aghili and again the following season tills this bird had by some means been ahle able to impart its newly found knowledge to all the other blackbirds blackballs on tile the estate end and instead of one bird ste allas ag the young fish all tile the birds got into the way of doing sol got the owner imd had either to L hoot the blackbirds or give VP up trying to rear trout that an entire change of food IF Is not detrimental may be proved by tho alio fact that many of tile the C cows wa kept in norway are fed on fish yet who will say that a cows teeth were made for if with a diet of tills sort bortl inquirer |