Through his influence that island was declared 

 a bird reserve and the nearest farmer a game 

 warden, his duty being to see that the birds 

 were not molested. He visited the island prac- 

 tically every day and the birds resented it so 

 much that, since that year, there has not ben a 

 Pelican on the island. That shows that we 

 must be careful in our attitude towards some 

 of the wild birds. 



"The Great Blue Heron used to nest in com- 

 munities, and, while it does to a certain extent, 

 the communities are very small. There is one 

 heronry near London with about twenty odd 

 nests. How it has escaped so long I do not 

 know, because we have so many irresponsible 

 people who do not think, whose impulse is to 

 slaughter, and who go out with .22 rifles into 

 a heronry just to see how many Herons they 

 can kill. Then, of course, the eggs rot or the 

 young starve to death. ... I do not see why 

 it should not be possible to declare such places 

 as heronries bird sanctuaries where guns would 

 not be allowed, where special penalties would 

 be enforced on any person going with a gun. 

 As a rule the few places in which these heron- 

 ries now exist are places where the neighbors 

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