The bird dipped, lost among the shadows of the leaves stirring in the May wind.

High above, the birds wheeled and dipped in the wind that blew the clouds across the huge sky.

Then, beyond the last one, the birds dipped and began a long, downward glide.

He scrambled for cover as the bird dipped its tail hooks into the foliage and stopped dead.

Occasionally a bird would dip from one tree to another with a tremulous, piping call.

He looked somehow like a big fat bird dipped in urine and sun-dried.

Late flowers shone in the roadside hedges, birds dipped over the road as they drove.

To cool off, the birds of prey were dipping their heads in the water, spreading their wings and panting, she said.

The birds, bright and beautiful, dipped their wings exultantly in the lucid flow of air.

Out over the surface of the turbulent stream, a bird wheeled, dipped and soared.