A SANCTUARY.
STARLINGS ON ST. PAUL’S. St. IPaul-’s Cathedral, London, pre■sented an unusual spectacle one evening recently. In the courtyard and the streets around stood crowds of people .gazing skywards, as immense flocks of starlings hovered over, wheeled round, and eventually rested on every available ridge of the -roof. Against a clear
blue tsTsy,, ait .sunset, ;bir«ls, myriads of them, could be seenjperched closely row on row, along theiiiigb lines of the cathedral, on the dome and right, up to the topmost arm in sight on the golden erotss. 'On every sid'e of the building, on every roof, and oo® every pinnacle, starlings settled themselves for the nigdit, in some cases out the building like bees on n. hive. In the fading light there couldsstill bo seen, silhoiaettcd against the of starlings swooping up and down, and at last resting on heads, shoulders and hands of the statues of the saints. * 1 They came across fhe dike a cloud/ 9 said a poTiecma-n on diityrafterwards.
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Putaruru Press, Volume IV, Issue 121, 25 February 1926, Page 3
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165A SANCTUARY. Putaruru Press, Volume IV, Issue 121, 25 February 1926, Page 3
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