Uncle Dick and Lisa's Old Time Animal Tales

     It is not generally realized how great an enemy the sea gull is to smaller birds. An observer ventures the opinion that the reason why small migrants invariably cross the sea by night is that otherwise they would be simply exterminated by gulls. Sometimes it happens that a change in the wind delays the arrival of flights of spring migrants, so that they fail to make a landing before daylight. Lighthouse keepers have then witnessed scenes of savage slaughter; hundreds of poor, tired, little songsters being hinted down by gulls, seized and devoured.