swoln with spring, with sappy sweetness pregnant, The maple blushes with its leafy weight.” The Greek name for the swallow was “chelodian”. “Chelidonian winds” are westerly, or south ...
Stone curlews: The oddball of the bird world with a touch of the prehistoric look With a sinister yellow gaze and legs ‘swoln like those of a gouty man’, the prehistoric-looking stone curlew is ...