Show SEA PIGEONS IN MILLIONS birds shut out light of sun on pa elf c coast traveling in immense hordes which resemble huge black clouds sweeping over the water millions of sea pigeons came in from the sea last week close in the wake of mammoth schools of sardines which they were intently pursuing fiang three or tour four deep and a score or more abreast millions upon millions of the small birds were seen floating over bakers dakers bay and the lower columbia forming a solid but ever ener changing mass almost im penetrable to the human gaze the speed at which they flew was mas largely a matter of conjecture but probably was not less than fifty miles an hour one floal of pigeons was awre than two hours pissing over 0 bar thousands of the he birds became en angled ng led in the mesh of the fish trap leads at high tide and the weight of their bodies Is a ser serious fous menace to the gearing at sea the pigeons can generally be found where the sardines exist but they corce corne to the river every summer their 91 1 I custom Is to follow schools of whale which aich also feed upon the waiting toi fill the sardines are surrounded and he whales whiles aro are about to rush upon their victims pigeons slip in a ana bif gorge themselves upon tipon the fish ilwaco journal |