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Hobby & Hay (1 Viewer)

halftwo

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Cut meadows pale and short held Lapwing young still fluffy but nearly grown, with parents which were wary of the Crows who strode the same turf. Their young croaking, following, dark in the bright shorn grass.. Pied wagtails picked flies at a run and Starlings noisily high stepping in a crowd.

A Yellowhammer rattled out its song at front of stage while distant Curlews' calls arythmic descant filled in between wall and hedge and moor.

As if from a gun's retort the world lifted as Swallows' alarms pierced the peace and the air became specked with birds. A Hobby came sliding over the skyline, wings angled, gliding downslope towards the crowded panicky flocks.

Swifts followed, scything over cut fields, arcing, racing to keep pace with their nemesis. Seconds went and the falcon was gone. Starlings bunched on wires, Lapwings spiralled to fields.

Down where the land lay in gentler folds - plump and rich and hedge lined, Tree sparrows chirped and a Whitethroat's song stabbed from the bramble, now pricked with flowers, safe in the thorn, and elderflowers spread their discs of froth to replace the cow parsley already run to seed.

The valley dozed in a midsummer afternoon and deep shadows slept beneath the ash where a Kestrel, briefly flashing in the sun, took a vole to its young somewhere in its hollow.
 
Beautiful post, H. It's wonderful that you have seen your spirit bird at your new place. Who knows, maybe one year a pair will stay and the Hobby thread will be resurrected. Not that this post with its perfect last line about the Kestrel doesn't suffice; I just loved how you loved your Hobbies and how you expressed it. I liked the enthusiasm the thread generated and the passionate posts from your fellow Hobby watchers.
 
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