THE BLACKBIRD'S WARNING
[To the Editor of the Spzeraroa.] SIR,—It may interest your correspondent in the Spectator of January 19th that a sparrow-hawk roosted every night for over two months last spring-1928—on the top of a rhone pipe on this house, a few feet from the front door and along- side a bedroom window. All the other birds were greatly upset and fluttered about as long as daylight lasted. We chased it off its perch quite frequently, but it showed no alarm and simply flew to some trees at the foot of the garden and returned whenever we withdrew. After trying different means to get rid of it, the gardener finally shot it.
What we thought so surprising was its temerity, as, unless we clapped our hands to frighten it off, it would not leave its perch at all. We had to get rid of it owing to its depredations among the smaller birds in the garden.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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