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 thedew flashes from its brown feathers.

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