HERON AND ROOKS.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR,"[
Sin,—Carionsly enough I also last week witnessed precisely the same thing as that referred to by Mr. Cooper in the Spectator of October 8th, in his letter to you. I was standing in my garden in the middle of the day, when I saw a heron being chased by three rooks, which persistently pursued him notwithstanding his frequent endeavours to get rid of them. The rooks kept close to their victim, and every now and then the heron, giving himself a curious twist in his flight, would swoop down upon them with a loud angry cry, but nothing that he could do availed to shake off his tormentors. They were flying over a lake bordered by large trees close to my house, and after a little time the heron turned and flew away towards Clamber, whence he had probably come. The cir- cumstances exactly agree with those mentioned by Mr. Cooper. I may mention that herons frequently come over here, but I have never seen them molested by other birds as this one was.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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