Rustling.

PLEASANT SOUNDS

The rustling of leaves under the feet in woods and under

      hedges;

The crumpling of cat-ice and snow down wood-rides,

      narrow lanes and every street causeway;

Rustling through a wood or rather rushing, while the wind

      halloos in the oak-toop like thunder;

The rustle of birds' wings startled from their nests or flying

      unseen into the bushes;

The whizzing of larger birds overhead in a wood, such as

      crows, puddocks, buzzards;

The trample of robins and woodlarks on the brown leaves.

      and the patter of squirrels on the green moss;

The fall of an acorn on the ground, the pattering of nuts on 

       the hazel branches as they fall from ripeness;

The flirt of the groundlark's wing from the stubbles –

       how sweet such pictures on dewy mornings, when the 

Dew flashes from its brown feathers.

John Clare