Behold us, we are a pray to the talons of sparrowhawks, serpent eagles and kites, behold us, turned birds and companions of purple herons and red-backed shrikes, of hoopoes, aberdevines and serins, lesser grey shrikes and goldfinches, of crows, of little grebes, woodpeckers and siskins, of tufted ducks, of garganeys and owls, of collared flycatchers, of wrynecks, larks, wheatears and flycatchers, chaffinches, wood warblers, kestrels, blackcaps and goldcrests, of great tits and of dippers, of wild ducks, wagtails and woodcocks, least bitterns and wrens, black-eared wheatears, goldfinches, wood larks, of greenfinches, magpies and water-hens.