Expertly run by Dan Mantle (for which much thanks). It
included great sights of a Nankeen Kestrel hovering, provoking Dan’s
apposite reference to Gerard Manley Hopkins’s `The Windhover’,
the words of which we sought unavailingly…
`I caught this morning morning’s minion,
kingdom of
daylight’s dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon, in
his
riding
Of the rolling level underneath him steady air, and
striding
High there, how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling
wing ...’
This was matched by another walker’s ref
to `Pied Beauty’.
Sz
