TWO LITTLE BIRDS AND A BIG NUT . . [To
the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—The following bears out the love of birds for walnuts, mentioned in your interesting " Country Life "- page of January 13th. One very cold winter in Braemar I had a bird table, and suspended- from it were Brazil nuts, walnuts, cheese- (which coaltits prefer) and other -delicacies. One day a blue tit arrived and started to feast on a walnut,• which was suspended by a strong thread about seven inches long, hanging on underneath it.
Immediately after a great tit flew on to the table, and, evidently fancying the same walnut, laid hold of the thread with his beak, pulled a piece on to the board, and laid his claw on it.- He then again took the thread in his beak, and continued the operation, until, by aid of beak and claw alter- nately, he had hauled Up thread, walnut and little blue tit. Then he happily attacked the upper end of the nut, the smaller bird staying on the lower portion.—I am, Sir, &c.,
British Post Office, Tangier; Morocco. A. M. SALMON.
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