Reminiscences of a Falconer
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I know not how the hawk may have begun this flight before the birds came into sight ; but, so far as we could see it, not one single stoop did he attempt. In lieu of stooping, a most effective and to us unusual manoeuvre was adopted. When coming to close quarters, instead of stooping from above, the tiercel always rushed up from below, turned over, and tried to grab the peewit. He was, of course, easily enough "put out," as we expected, by the turns and twists of the hunted bird. No whit discou...raged, time after time the hawk went upward in the air for a few yards only after his miss, and then hurled himself downward after, and far faster than, his quarry, passed over him and then turned round, and headed him by some twenty yards or so. The peewit, with the hawk thus wait- ing for him down-wind, and close at hand, did not dare to hang in the wind, or to fly against it for a single second of time. He had, therefore, no alter- native but to go on down-wind as best he could.
There lay his adversary, ready and waiting for him ; but the only resource possible to the hunted bird was to elude by some means the hawk's next up- ward rush and attempted clutch.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
I know not how the hawk may have begun this flight before the birds came into sight ; but, so far as we could see it, not one single stoop did he attempt. In lieu of stooping, a most effective and to us unusual manoeuvre was adopted. When coming to close quarters, instead of stooping from above, the tiercel always rushed up from below, turned over, and tried to grab the peewit. He was, of course, easily enough "put out," as we expected, by the turns and twists of the hunted bird. No whit discou...raged, time after time the hawk went upward in the air for a few yards only after his miss, and then hurled himself downward after, and far faster than, his quarry, passed over him and then turned round, and headed him by some twenty yards or so. The peewit, with the hawk thus wait- ing for him down-wind, and close at hand, did not dare to hang in the wind, or to fly against it for a single second of time. He had, therefore, no alter- native but to go on down-wind as best he could.
There lay his adversary, ready and waiting for him ; but the only resource possible to the hunted bird was to elude by some means the hawk's next up- ward rush and attempted clutch.
What to read after Reminiscences of a Falconer?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Charles Hawkins Fisher to read onlineMoreLess
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