woodpigeons

Updated: June 8, 2025

A few steps down the lane, upon looking over a gate into a large arable field where the harrow has broken up the clods, a faint bluish tinge may be noticed on the dull earth in the more distant parts. A second glance shows that it is caused by a great flock of woodpigeons. Some more come down out of the elms and join their companions; there must be a hundred and fifty or two hundred of them.

Richard Jefferies - Hodge and His Masters

That young gentleman, however, was supremely unconscious of any shortcomings, and burst into the hall, tired, and less sprucely groomed than usual, but distinctly radiant. His game-bag looked comfortably full. "Guess what I have shot," he demanded. "Pheasants, woodpigeons, rabbits," hazarded Norah. "No; a large beast; I don't know what you call it in English. Brown, with a darkish tail."

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