WHIRS AS FISHERS.
Wbitln.i; in the Field, "W. H. (Cavorsheld, Bicester), .Returning from cub-hunt-ing one morning recently I had to cross a small rivulet, along which a mere driblet trickles from an ornamental lake, which is now very deficient of water. My attention was attracted by live robins, busily engaged foraging amongst- the pebbles in the bed of the stream, from which they constantly Hew mi to a neighbouring low wall, carrying some live objects in their beaks! At 'first sight these appeared to be worms, but on going to the wall immediately a bird alighted I found a. small stickleback kicking there. 1 watched the birds for some time at a distance of about, lei: yards, and they caught the iish crossways 'in : their beaks',' and invariably returned to the coping stones to eat litem, which they evidently did with great gusto. Hereabouts the country is very dry and hard, owing to (he absence of rain, which makes insect- food scarce, and doubtless this is the cause of the robins adopting a fish diet.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12740, 17 December 1904, Page 1 (Supplement)
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