heron-sentiment

Updated: May 16, 2025

This sentiment differs, too, from the heron-sentiment, which serves to keep that bird with us in spite of the annual wail, rising occasionally in South Devon to a howl, of human trout-fishers. It is a traditional feeling coming down from the far past in England from the time of William the Conqueror to that of William of Orange and the decay of falconry.

W. H. (William Henry) Hudson - Birds in Town and Village