%LK SNATCHERS.
News of the spread of this strange taste in woodpeckers reached me by the same post as a photograph of a blue tit making, its way with speed and precision into a milk bottle left on a doorstep in Newcastle. The bird has driven a rough hole through the cardboard lid, has lifted the whole cover in its beak, and is on the. point of removing it before drinking the milk. Tbe pidiire (which appeared in the Newcastle Journal) came to me from Jesmond Dene, one of the most attractively designed spots in any public park, which has proved a Paradise for birds, big as Swans or small as golden crested wrens. The tits are in the habit of attacking these cardboard covered milk bottles as soon as they are set down and are very quick at Completing the job. Have tits or other birds made a like discovery in other places ? Perhaps milk would be a useful addition to our bird tables.
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