SEAGULLS AND LAMBS.
A SINISTER VIGIL KEPT,
{"TO TELEGRAPH, —OWN CORRESPONDENT.] / ; WELLINGTON, Sunday. In a paddock on Cameron's line, near Aorangi, during the past week-end,' quite 100 l&rge black and white seagulls were ceen patiently waiting for the arrival of the young lambs. One authority gave it as his opinion that there was a storm at sea, hence the presence, of the birds. Another equally well-informed person said there was a particular ground grub which the gulls came to feed on, but a well-known farmer said that the reason was that some uncanny instinct acquainted the birds with the fact that it was lambing time, and they were on hand, ready to pick the eyes out of any iamb which might be at all weak on its legs. This, no doubt, is the real reason.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18772, 28 July 1924, Page 8
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135SEAGULLS AND LAMBS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18772, 28 July 1924, Page 8
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