ATTRACTING GULLS
HOW THEY CAME TO LONDON PARK. Commenting upon the usual winter incursion of gulls inland, a correspondent of “The Times” wrote:— “The story is often told of how, in the hard winter of 1898, a small party of black-headed gulls came wandering up the Thames to London, v/here they ‘discovered’ the lake in St. James’s Park, were fed by the kindly Londoners, and wisely decided to spend the rest of the winter there. Next year they came again, and brought many of their friends, and so it continued, with more and more gulls arriving each successive winter. ‘Feeding the gulls’ became the favourite lunch-hour recreation, not only in St. James’s Park and by the Serpentine, but all along the Embankment. “Some gulls, no doubt, were always '•’to be seen on London’s river, even belB9B, for the Thames is tidal here, ’with abundant pickings from the mudbanks and the wharves; but there seems no doubt that their present numbers are directly due to their kind reception that- bitter winter and in the following years.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 July 1942, Page 4
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175ATTRACTING GULLS Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 July 1942, Page 4
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