Birds on the Eastern Fronts 



tery that it would not leave. It accompanied 

 the guns through several fights, notably 

 Asiago, the Austrian offensive of June isth, 

 1918, where it was gassed, and Montello. 



MACEDONIA 



STORKS were numerous near Salonika, and 

 one of these birds acquired the habit of 

 meeting our aeroplanes wherever they landed 

 and soon came to be regarded by the pilots 

 as their mascot. 



After a terrific tearing and roaring noise of 

 artillery and shot in "the dead of night " 

 there would be a temporary cessation of the 

 duel, when out would come the NIGHTIN- 

 GALES, right above the guns, perched some- 

 times only a few yards from them in some 

 bushes, in a ravine where our guns were 

 hidden. 



An EAGLE, well looked after and carefully 

 handled, became the pet of a subaltern in 

 the Balkans. 



PALESTINE 

 It was remarked that in Palestine the birds 



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