6 APRIL 1956, Page 43

..-k AMR ROOKS

light hatever the diary says about sunset and ? itirtg-up time, the rooks take account of 11 win, things as they actually are. I found myself walking home the other evening in a drizzle I: rain. It was dusk, but a great conversation ' w• as going on in the rookery. It struck me that the rooks should have settled long ago, and ...-,0 then, when I crossed some higher ground, I ellotild see that it was quite bright on the °.rizon. Daylight hadn't gone from the tops 0, ' the trees to the same extent that it had down the hollow, The rooks were still, in a talka- ve mood. It was long past lighting-up time, it this can't be impressed upon a bird any ore than One can tell a trout that April is re and it should be feeding on flies.