OUR WINTER VISITORS.
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
Sin,—To-day for the first time this autumn I saw some (six) black-headed gulls in St. James's Park. One of the carrion crows which have apparently taken up their residence there greatly resented the gull's arrival and attacked them. They fled before it crying, but it did not succeed in driving them away. If this pair of carrion crows intend to keep out of St. James's Park all the gulls that will probably visit it this winter, they have a heavy winter's work before them. In past years in hard winters I have known about 5,000 black-headed gulls to visit this piece of water in one day, and 500 is a quite frequent number in cold weather. A few tufted duck have also appeared to-day in this Park—the first I have seen since the lake was refilled. Their diving skill is a source of never- ending delight to hundreds of Londoners.—I am, Sir, &e.,
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