Millard County Chronicle | 1912-08-22 | Page 8 | Birds Flock to Their Death.

Birds Flock to Their Death. An old sportsman of Normandy declares de-clares that round the lighthouse of Itarfleud last November there were picked up in the course of four nights 10.000 birds of all sorts. Including 1,1100 woodcock. The lighthouse on the I'ointe de I'eninarch, In Brittany, bas a revolvlug tight of 30.000,000 candle power. Visiting this on November No-vember 10 Isst year, and again on the 12th. an observer saw tens of thousands thous-ands of birds whirling round, and It seemed to him that the light shot out a perfect hall of electric sparks among the mlgranta. Next morning be waa present while the dead bodies were being collected They are dispatched very day to Paris by train, and th "catch," he was told, often comprised 2,000 to 4.010 victims; one morning alone there bad been more than 00 woodcock in the "bag "