BIRD NOTES 27 



now putrefying) worms. There were hundreds of 

 Blackheads, and a great number of Lapwings. They 

 remained feeding there a week. 



By way of contrast with this substantial spread of 

 good things may be mentioned a " Grey " Gull seen 

 enjoying himself immensely with a jelly-fish that had 

 been stranded on a mud flat, and which he was doing 

 his best to devour, the gelatinous fragments, clinging 

 around and trickling from his bill, being seized and 

 swallowed in a most awkward way. It occurred to 

 me that he was amusing himself rather than seriously 

 making a meal of it. 



Breydon Gulls have a fine time of it during the 

 hening fishery: much hard "tack" and mouldy 

 bread, besides dead fish, float upstream flung out 

 from the fishing vessels, to the great satisfaction of 

 the omnivorous Laridce. On one occasion several 

 large Norwegian loaves drifted up Breydon and 

 became stranded. The Rooks arid Gulls turned 

 vegetarians for a day or two, and what few crumbs 

 and bottom crusts they rejected or failed to gather 

 up were finished off by the rats on the walls, whither 

 the remnants floated. 



In May 1902 a Heron, standing thigh deep in the 

 water by the edge of a mud flat, caught and bolted 



