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But when the hunters have shot down all the low-flying loiterers, and the last one has lost sight of the flock, and knows that he never again can find them or follow them he is indeed to be pitied. I am as unhappy as the abandoned bird, for I have lost sight to-day of all that I belong to, and I am alone, and can never find them again."
Manuel lay flat on the ground to avoid being struck by low-flying birds, but I remained standing in order to see the better. Faster and faster circled the pursued and pursuers and louder grew the cries and croaks. My gaze was bewildered by the endless, eddying stream of birds.
I mention that because the driver says he's driving it for the Army, now. The information I have to pass on is...." Curtly and succinctly, he began to give exact information about the terror beam. Its detection so that one need not enter it. The total lack of effectiveness of a Faraday cage to check it. Its use to block highways and its one use against a low-flying plane.
And not much colour only the starry white hemlocks and globe-campion flowers, and the low-flying glamour of the last warm light on the wheat. . . . Now over wood and river the evening drew in fast.
The Indian's quick ear had detected a low-flying flock, and so, before they were seen in the dim morning light, they were heard. On they came, little dreaming of danger now that they were so far away from civilisation, and so they flew not a hundred feet above this hidden place of their enemies. Bang! bang! went the two guns into their midst, and soon bang! bang! went the other two barrels.
Telegraph wires are another menace to low-flying birds, especially those which, like quail and woodcock, enjoy a whirlwind flight, and attain great speed within a few yards. Such birds have been found almost cut in two by the force with which they struck the wire. The elements frequently catch birds unaware and overpower them.
They were spears and javelins in array to the sound of the drums of the north. The winter takes fuller possession of these things than of those that stand solid. The sedges whistle his tune. They let the colour of his light look through low-flying arrows and bright bayonets of winter day. The multitudes of all reeds and rushes grow out of bounds.
All this performance only served to increase my anger and contempt; but before I could make any reply I caught sight of a shadowy object at some distance moving towards us something grey and formless, gliding swift and noiseless, like some great low-flying owl among the trees.
Near the cave stood a group of two or three huts, with a yard in the middle, surrounded by a rough stone wall. This, according to the ironic name given to it by the ragamuffins, was the Crystal Palace, the nest of some low-flying turtledoves who frequented the Montana barracks and who, at night, were joined by friendly hawks and gerfalcons.
The skill of low-flying pilots in taking cover by flying behind woods, houses, etc., became increasingly important.
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