Crisp-winged flies
A symbiosis of hovering birds and fly-pestered bullocks, the darting martins hoovering up bothersome crisp-winged flies.
'Martins twittered along the...
Slate-colored snowbirds
Firstly, I like the idea of a 'snow' bird being the colour of slate. And being obsessed with colours and...
Bellowing bullfinches
Never heard a bullfinch, so I don't know if they bellow, but it isn't an easy word to associate with...
Cock-a-doodle-doo
In this year of the rooster, what better animal noise to kick off with than the Chinese version of ‘cock-a-doodle-doo’!...
Birds of war
The more I learn about birds, the more that 'bird brain' seems a misnomer. Here they are in a war...
Bird-loving Chinese
Lovely poetic sound, and I wonder what prompted Leigh Fermor to describe the Chinese in such terms as I am...
Rock-hole glory
A memorable image of a glorious, dreadful creature hanging out in weather-gouged holes in rocks.
'Nothing can really...
Time as a hovering hawk
I am fascinated by perspectives of time, and here it’s memorably described as a rough-legged hawk, or, when it implodes,...
And I shall teach the boy
Listening time: under 4 minutes.
The Countess of Gormenghast ponders her personal curriculum for her newborn son Titus,...
Sitting pigeons
You can see these pigeons plumply decorating the trees - we have wood pigeons who bill and coo in the...
Chatteration
'Again there was a sudden chatteration of gulls.' Â A fine description of the confabulations of sea-gulls when they get...
Skeins of geese sewn into the air
Two ways to describe the habitual, seasonal flight paths of geese: a skein woven into the air like stitches, which...
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