crepusculing

Updated: May 27, 2025

As a matter of fact, it was neither gull nor hawk nor owl, but a harrier, a hen-harrier that's its name, not its sex, for it was a cock and the same is a half-way house, so to speak, between hawk and owl. Possibly because they are crepuscular, harriers may be thought more rare than they are. This one was "crepusculing," and the black rat did not like it. They had met before, and Mr.

F. St. Mars - The Way of the Wild