peewit

Larks trilled unseen above the velvety green fields and the ice-covered stubble-land; peewits wailed over the low lands and marshes flooded by the pools; cranes and wild geese flew high across the sky uttering their spring calls.

In appearance and habits it resembles in many respects our peewits; its wings, however, are armed with sharp spurs, like those on the legs of the common cock.

Here you may find nests of the strong down partridge and peewit, but take care that the keeper isn't down upon you; and in the middle of it is an old cromlech, a huge flat stone raised on seven or eight others, and led up to by a path, with large single stones set up on each side.

A brace of Peewits danced the sky, before such a blazing blue.

I well remember watching newlyhatched peewits running about neighbouring fields with half the eggshell still attached to them.

Protected by valley bogs and marshes on three sides, the towering hill echoed hauntingly to the melancholic trill of curlews and mournful wail of peewits.

On April 26, a Pits Poets & Peewits walk follows the River Derwent to Blanchland, where the route climbs Buckshot Fell, joining the lead mining trail past Sikehead Dam, believed to have been the setting for some of WH Auden's early poetry.

Paul and Clara struggle to recapture "that once when the peewits had called" but their attempts to make the experience routine, "through mechanical effort" fail, as they mistakenly attribute the intensity of their experience to its immediate circumstances, the proximity of nature and the thrill of sex in public.

Since the 1940s lapwings, which are also known as peewits, have suffered because of major changes in farming techniques.

Invisible larks burst into song above the velvety green shoots and the ice-covered stubble, peewits sent up plaintive calls over wetlands and marshes sodden with murky, stagnant water, and up on high cranes and geese flew past with their spring cackle.

"Peewits, curlews and ring ouzel use to have habitats here but our 13 valleys are now empty of them.

(It was the first well to be opened up for use in the late 1500s and derives its name from Peewits or Lapwings).