ZZARDS
'UnlessI am mistaken there will soon be a ,InPaign against the buzzard, aided, perhaps, '' a word or two from broadcasting person- tiles. The buzzard has not been a common Win all parts of the country and the tempta- °11 to shoot one grows among those who e them more frequently. In my district a 1:iner brought one down with his gun about fortnight ago. It had, he said, been hovering 4 his hen-run and he had lost eleven hens. e, buzzard's wingspan measured forty-four eties, according to the account in the paper. fancy that the size of the bird and its sailing nit excited the man with the gun rather than rnisdeeds, if any. I hope, for his sake, that 1 is able to relate the loss of his hens and loitering of the buzzard more convincingly 'en the court comes to deal with him. The
that buzzards were fond of rabbits and
• now deprived of a favourite dish is being pi to indicate one of two things : that they II waste away and die or that they will
become a nuisance to farmers. I doubt whether the buzzard will be any more short of mice, voles and carrion than other birds of its sort, and I don't think it will be as much of a menace as the crow in the hen-run. I fear it is just a question of ignorant gunners looking for targets. Oddly enough, although they do many more times the damage, there is no enthusiasm for mouse-hunting!
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