THE MALIGNED ROOK

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21121, 23 March 1934, Page 9

THE MALIGNED ROOK

' : '"' ■••"- *' I: s .'i i ;;..- ; rjp, . Sir,- Your cor: c.-pci'.oVm toes" !•• evidently ;, very unobservant man m regard i-j Die rooks. I hve m -St. Alban:-, and the rook- <-<,n-;.-t- , : ently raid the walnut trees every year. ' i In tact. I watched them at the same : "Id at lunch tune to-day I was ', interested one Sunday i ■■ riune. three ytars when a number .if rooks raided the walnut tree of mv neighbour, a well-known bainster.' An old man rook supervised operation-. ta'n n\: his stand in the top nf Hie tree; and there was a continuous proee.--io,-. of ■rooks to and trom the wami.l nr. -each rook carrying a walntit. Tins went •on for about an hour, when old man ,rook decided thai they had had ennu-h , lor the momiii£. He yave a signal : and they all Hew awav. Yours, etc ORSkk'ykr' March 22, I .'it!',. ti» 'i hf. ■: it'ib or tj f rsr .;. Sir. -In reply to a letter signed "Ringtoes" I mu.-l state that he is , very much mistaken in his contention that looks do not take walnut. Last week I noticed a number of rooks eight or 10. flying round and settlinc in a walnut tree in Manning slrol , Riccarton: they were alter the mils This fact I have known for year.--; that is. that rooks are walnut thuveA relation of mine told me recently that he often wondered how walnut came to be on Ins property, where there are no trees. He has now dis- ; covered that they are dropper! by : rooks on their way over his land to ; Daresbury, | If "Ringtoes" were' a little more ! observant, he would not write in the tone he has used. If ih.e rooks discover his walnuts, thc> won't la-! Icm;. - Your:-, etc . RICCARTOXITK. March 22. I'KM.