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Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18415, 23 June 1925, Page 14

Tho guardians of St. Catherine's Lighthouse, at the southernmost point of the Isle of Wight, are once moro putting the perches on the outside of the lighthouse, above and below the great lantern whose 15,000,000,000-candle-power beams hare been seen 03 miles away. • These perches were first put up some nine years ago at the suggestion of bird lovers, so- that the migrating birds should not beat themselves to death against the glass of the lighthouse when they were attracted and fascinated by the light. Twice a year they put the perches out, in autumn for the birds flying south, and in. spring when the birds are returning. Thousands of birds are 6aved every year, for, though they, still fly against the glass to get at the light, they soon find that there is a perch to rest on, and there they stay and refresh themselves before flying on. Swallows are seldom among these birds, for they fly south by day. The rescued birds are 'mostly whoatears, tits, and finches.