BIRDS DON’T LIKE FOGS.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 2498, 12 June 1920, Page 6

BIRDS DON’T LIKE FOGS.

1 util flying reached the iiiiixirtarioe if lias done, 'few people worried very n pell about fogs. They thought them disagreeable, go out in them more than necessary, but tha was all. Now British scientists are making a s|»eei!il study of fogs in order to find some puiek way ol preventing them, and 'o removing from flying what is undoubtedly its greatest danger. In tact, fog is the only t'liiiig. practically. now ndavs, which compels airmen to stop oil the ground, for they are facing almost certain death m attempting to hnul in really foggy weather. Eog has exactly tJie same effect on birds as if has on pilots. Nothing bewilders lurdis ipueli When the wea; her I- foggy pigeons will remain in their cote*, huddled up a! day refusing l" move, while -potion- semi to lose all tlie.r I towel of el altering ~!id billing about lookii : for food. Keen chickens and jmullrv generally won't stir when there l- a heavy fog a boil t . I is a euriou- poll" that while all tti n Iha I H' are Ivu del si hy logs most aiiiin.il- find their wav through them wilh little difficulty A horse Will trot along in its l ght direction as though the air v. re perfectly clear and will tak. the right turning at the right moment it it is on a road wit h whu h it is familiar. A man oiay have walked down the road a hit ml red times in clear weather, but he will lose his wav in the first hundred yards in a thick fog.