In the dark of night suddenly a blood curdling scream - is it a Banshee, someone in trouble???? No, it's a
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CURLEW.........
From ferny streams, unearthly screams
Are heard in the midnight blue;
As afar they roam to the shepherd's home,
The shrieks of the wild Curlew
The Song of the Curlew by Henry Kendall