THE LITTLE GREY
GULLS OF AUCKLAND
I YI t aT€H them * ’ one evening, winging their way over the roofs of the city the little grey gulls of Auckland. Or, if you will, pause awhile in your rush to the office and watch them , . in the morning. They come in clouds from the restless sea to the sanctuary of the open spaces. These birds are to be found in every public park and garden. They wheel in leisured flight above the chimneypots and the clang of industry, or glide on almost motionless wing before dropping like threads of silver to the grass.
Like every othex large city Auckland has her birdlovers. From the windows of buildings near Albert Park they throw food to the gulls. It is part of the day’s task for them; a labour oi love. I But it is at lunch-time that one ; comes on the big: army of bird-lovers , and their attendant feathered foliow- ! ers. In quiet corners of Albert Park, j men and women, old and young:, gladly , share their lunches with the little grey j gulls. A human being is not a monster ; to the tiny seabirds—he is a friend who ! makes the daily round of finding food
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 2, 24 March 1927, Page 8
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203THE LITTLE GREY Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 2, 24 March 1927, Page 8
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