Mouse or Bird ?
Do birds suffer in reputation from the acts of quadrupeds? The question is. suggested by the observation of some young women who watched a field mouse climb into a cherry tree and start eating the fruit very much in the manner and with the neatness of a squirrel. I am inclined to think that mice are often responsible for the raiding of peas. which is usually attributed to jays, hawfinches and tits. However, there seems to be a new recruit to the attackers of the peas. Jackdaws, which continue (like the willow-herb) to increase abnormally, seem to have begun to adopt this diet in the North and West. As for my garden. though jays are to be seen in the paddock, not a pea-pod has been damaged by any animal, so abundant is other, especially carnal, food.
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