Tim wrote:
"Snails! Song Thrush love snails! A sure fire why to track them down is to
look for empty piles of snail shells"
When I was growing up in Coburg in the 1950s, Song Thrushes were very
common and I would often watch them breaking snail shells against a rock or
the footpath prior to eating the snail. By the early 1960s, Song Thrushes
were rarely seen and my mother, who was a keen observer of nature (and
still is), said that their absence was a consequence of eating snails
poisoned with snail pellets.
How close to the mark was she?
David
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