A SANCTUARY.
8 1- Paul’s Cathedral, London, presented an unusual spectacle one evening recently. In the courtyard and tile 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 tone "-.nfry sky, at nun.,.-■%• the birds, myriads of them, could be seen perched closely row on row, along tlio high lines of the cathedral, on the dome and right, up to the topmost arm in sight on the golden cross. On every side of the building, on every roof, and on every pinnacle, starlings settled themselves for the night, in some eases blocking out the building like bees on a hive. In the fading light there could still bo seen, silhouetted against the sky, flights of starlings swooping up and down, and at. last resting on heads, shoulders and hands of the statues of the saints. ‘ ‘ They came across the sky like a cloud,” said a policeman on duty afterwards.
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Putaruru Press, Volume IV, Issue 121, 25 February 1926, Page 8
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170A SANCTUARY. Putaruru Press, Volume IV, Issue 121, 25 February 1926, Page 8
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