AN ADVENTUROUS WAGTAIL.
(To THE EDITOR OF TR& "SPECTATOR.")
Snt,—The following extract from a letter of May 26th last may interest some of your readers :—
"Midland Railway, Wellingborough.
A truck of bricks labelled Bagworth to Childs Hill arrived in our marshalling sidings yesterday, and the attention of our foreman being drawn to a small opening, through which a couple of wagtails were every now and then passing with food in their beaks, one of the bricks was removed, and then a nest of young birds (wagtails) was discovered, and it was evident the old ones had followed the truck for a distance of forty-four miles. As there are tunnels between here and London, it was thought they could not very well follow it to its destination, and Foreman Foster therefore carefully removed the nest, placing it in a tuft of grass on the embankment. The noise the young birds made Boos caused the old ones to And them, and they are now feeding then., just as if no disturbance had occurred."
—I am, Sir, &c., GERTRUDE THOMAS.
Pitch and Pay, Stoke Bishop.
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