THE CRUEL KINGFISHER.
By LUCY FYERS, Bangiriri. Lower Waikalo. (Age 10.) Original. In the corner of our cowyard there is » willow tree; it was put there many years Ago as a post, but it grew, and now it is quite big, and while I am sitting milking I study bird-life, for birds of nil sorts come to our willow tree. In summer time we often see the cuckoos there; in spring the luis often rest there on their way to the kowliai trees, and nt all times we see blackbirds, thrushes, finches, sparrows, grey warblers and fantails. One day not long ngo as I was milking a little grev warbler flew squeaking loudly into the tree, followed by a kingfisher. The little bird stopped squeaking for a moment as the kingfisher alighted on the opposite side of the tree. For a second they rested, then the kingfisher kft, his branch like, lightning, and flying through the free, seized the little bird in his beak and bore it away. I can still hear its dreadful squeaks, I tised to love the kingfishers, but I love them Do longer.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20988, 26 September 1931, Page 4 (Supplement)
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187THE CRUEL KINGFISHER. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20988, 26 September 1931, Page 4 (Supplement)
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