Identifier: birdsinlondon00huds (find matches)
Title: Birds in London
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Hudson, W. H. (William Henry), 1841-1922
Subjects: Birds -- England London
Publisher: London, New York, Bombay, Longmans, Green and co.
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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ofmany persecuted wild birds, and that they wouldhere lose the excessive wariness which makesit in most cases so difficult to observe them. A word must be added concerning the rook-shooting, which takes place in May, when thereare still a good many young herons in the nests.At Wanstead I have been seriously told that theherons are mightily pleased to witness theannual massacre of their unneighbourly blackneighbours, or their young. My own belief,after seeing the process, is that the panic ofterror into which the old herons are thrown mayresult some day in the entire colony shifting itsquarters into some quieter wood in Essex ; andthat it would be well to adopt some other lessdangerous method of thinning the rooks, if theyare too numerous, which is doubtful. For the rest, the Corporation are deservingof nothing but praise for their management ofthis invaluable ground. Here is a bit of wildwoodl.ind nature unspoiled by tli(^ improvingspirit whicli makes foi- ))r(lliii(ss in \)\r IJoyal
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WANSTEAI; OLD PARK : EARLY SPRING EAST LONDON 215 Parks and Kew Gardens and in too many of theCounty Councils open spaces. The trees arenot deprived of their lower branches, nor other-wise mutilated, or cut down because they areaged or decaying or draped in iyy : nor are thewind-chased yellow and russet leaves that givea characteristic beauty and charm to the winterwoodland here swept up and removed like offen-sive objects ; nor are the native shrubs andevergreens rooted up to l3e replaced by thatalways ugly inharmonious exotic, the rhodo-dendron. 216 BIBDS IN LOXDOX CHAPTER XII SOUTH-EAST LONDON General siuvey of South London—South-east London: its mostpopulous portion—Three small open spaces—CamberwellNew Park — Southwark Park—Kennington Park — Fineshrubberies—Greenwich Park and Blackheath—A statelyand depressin.i^: park—Mutilated trees—The extreme East—Bostell Woods and Heath—Their peculiar charm—Woolwichand Plumstead Commons—Hilly Fields—Peckham Rye a

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