Food and Song
The weather brought less usual visitors to many bird-tables One very lively account has been given me of a robin that quite successfully imitated the tits in making a meal off a hanging coconut, but achieved the feat more by agitated wing beats than by grappling with its slender legs. Food has been short, especially for the robin, which is a born carnivore. I have never known the bird to be quite so close and constant a companion of the digging gardener. Fishermen who have also suffered from the lowness of the water have hardly ever known the water so empty of any obvious insect life. One of the rather less common birds that has been singing in my garden— and songs on these cold mornings are rarer than usual—is the hawfmch, and a shrike has been seen in a spot generally pre- fernd by nightingales ; but this spring no warbler of any kind has uttered a note there.
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