. Birds of the water, wood & waste . WOOD AND WASTE 129 noon over undried dews, or at an earh^hour on the sunny side of a clump ofMahoe, he will be catching flies, while stillthe sward is silver mist, and while yet theskies are of paler blue. In summer heloves to hunt above the limestone runnelsthat trickle and drop from pool to terracedpool, deep in the sombre shade of groves ofmanuka. Quite in the open, too, over the bubbledbrooks, and just above their shelteringfringe of overarching growth, he fluttersand flits in the fullest sun, dancing likea gnat or ranging at random like awandering butt
. Birds of the water, wood & waste . WOOD AND WASTE 129 noon over undried dews, or at an earh^hour on the sunny side of a clump ofMahoe, he will be catching flies, while stillthe sward is silver mist, and while yet theskies are of paler blue. In summer heloves to hunt above the limestone runnelsthat trickle and drop from pool to terracedpool, deep in the sombre shade of groves ofmanuka. Quite in the open, too, over the bubbledbrooks, and just above their shelteringfringe of overarching growth, he fluttersand flits in the fullest sun, dancing likea gnat or ranging at random like awandering butterfly. In winter hundredsand hundreds of Fantails move from theuplands in a vertical migration towardsTutira lake, there to regale themselvesduring the cold weeks on the copiouswater insect crop. It is not uncommon during the winterdays to have a Fantail enter the house byan open door or window, returning morningafter morning to hunt for house flies,fluttering round the cornices, perching onthe pictures, neither courting attention o
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