THE DAW SENTIMENT 



I HAVE spoken of the wood adjacent to the 

 villages of Hayle and Lelant where the rooks, 

 daws, and starlings of the neighbourhood have 

 their winter roosting-place. This is at Trevelloe, 

 the ancient estate of the Praeds, who now call 

 themselves Tyringham. Here the daws congre- 

 gate each evening in such numbers that a stranger 

 to the district and to the local habits of the bird 

 might imagine that all the cliff-breeding jackdaws 

 in West Cornwall had come to roost at that spot. 

 Yet the cliff-breeders, albeit abundant enough, are 

 but a minority of the daw population of this dis- 

 trict. The majority of these birds live and breed 

 in the neighbouring villages and hamlets St. 

 Ives, Carbis Bay, Towadneck, Lelant, Phillack, 

 Hayle, and others further away. It is a jack- 

 daw metropolis and, as we have seen, every village 

 receives its own quota of birds each morning, and 



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