BAROMETERS OF THE BUSH

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3849, 4 October 1932, Page 4

BAROMETERS OF THE BUSH

It has been suggested from Gisborne apropos of the recurrent earth tremours, that birds receive some warning or intuition of earthquakes. There is on record observations of another barometer eg the bush. Air A. P. Harper tells a story of the ufiel illness of the bush canary. “Some hour s before a storm,” he says, “the canaries and iittie wrens collect in flocks and keep up a lively ohirpmg. Sometimes, when on the high country overlooking the bush covered hills below, with weather signs ominous, but not enough io make us prepare for a bad storm, we would see these birds rising in little flocks front tile trees and dropping back again. Then w e knew witho'ut doubt that we wore in for something wad— and took the necessary precautions. Their warnings never failed.” If storms, then why not intuitions of earthquakes?