Long-tailed birds flashed blue overhead, swooping between broad-leafed trees like kids on a playground.

A bird flashed away, flaring red wings.

With a squawk the bird rose into the air and flashed past Lomax's face.

It seared my friggin' eyelids shut, and when the job was done, the friggin' bird flashed cross the sky just like a shootin' star.

Long-tailed birds, their plumage like living jewels, flashed from treetop to treetop.

The boobies had already set to their fishing again, and the higher birds were still in the sun, flashing pink as they dived through the fiery light.

And the next instant a humming bird, dressed in green and blue, flashed past the woman and entered the house.

Eek cowered in fright on Grag's mighty shoulder, as flame-winged birds or flying reptiles flashed across the highway from the jungle.

A bright red bird flashed across the clearing and was gone.

When I was on the move once more, the bird flashed ahead.