SEAGULLS AND LAMBS.
A SINISTER VIGIL KEPT
A Wellington correspondent telegraphs , , In a phddock on Cameron’s lino, near Aorangi, during the past week-end, quite 100 large black and white seagulls were seen patiently waiting for the arrival of the young lambs. One authority gave-it as his opinion that there was a- storm at- sea, lienee the presence of the birds., Another equally well-informed person said there was a particular ground grub which tho 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 cm hand,,ready to pick the eyes out of any lamb which might be at all weak on its legs. This, no doubt, is thei real reason. ...
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16497, 1 August 1924, Page 8
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131SEAGULLS AND LAMBS. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16497, 1 August 1924, Page 8
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