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Show BLACKBIRDS OMD CF FISH Make Raid o.i Trout Fisherj Established in an Estate in Scotland. Those who study nature And tha' age-long traits and habits are be ing In some cases modified and ii others entirely changed. The writer knows of a caw where a bird has its habit: changed by altered conditions. A trout fishery was establisiiec on an estate in Scotland. Dui-in;i certain seasons a large number oJ the fry or young trout are crou dec together in shallow ponds, as their inclination is to keep together Just where the water enters. One day a blackbird, drinking at one of these ponds, got hold of 0 young trout, probably accidentally, but found It was excellent feeding. A blackbird does not by habit get its food from the water, but this particular one, having taliped 0 new source o food supply returned to It again and again. The following season this bird had by some means been able to Impart Its newly-found knowledge to all the other blackbirds on the estate, and Instead of one bird stealing the young fish, all the birds got into the way of doing so I sThe owner had either to shoot the blackbirds or give up trying to real trout. That an entire change of food II not detrimental may be proved bj the fact that many of the cowl kept In Norway are fed on flsh, yet who will say that a cow's teeth were made for dealing with a diel of this sort? London Tit-Bits. |
