France 1893
Edward Harrison Barker, Two Summers in Guyenne: A Chronicle of the Wayside and Waterside, 1894, Chapter: A Canoe Voyage on the Dronne.
We … disturbed from the alders great multitudes of sparrows that had become gregarious. They stayed in the trees until the boat was about twenty yards from them, and then rose with the noise of a storm-wind beating the leaves.
