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Wird Batcher
Orca-coloured, dolphin-blunt hunters of aerial plankton, fin-winged, notch-tailed plump and piebald, the House martins have found a shoal of flies below the continental shelf of the hill side opposite.
Unlike the shark-like Swifts' dash the slow swim takes them level by the wood - the deep dark disappears them - except their rumps, spotlight white, which dot the trees now.
Then out against the sky and suddenly blue and brown, sailing at leisure over waves of meadows. Float and line along the valley. A sudden sally to net or hook, this small school silent, slides away - as soft rain sullies silver skies grey.
Unlike the shark-like Swifts' dash the slow swim takes them level by the wood - the deep dark disappears them - except their rumps, spotlight white, which dot the trees now.
Then out against the sky and suddenly blue and brown, sailing at leisure over waves of meadows. Float and line along the valley. A sudden sally to net or hook, this small school silent, slides away - as soft rain sullies silver skies grey.
