The Common Kestrel is a falcon found in Europe. it is exceptional in its ability to remain stationary while in the air...those of us who are fortunate enough to have had some background in aviation know that the bird is able to find rising air currents and "fall" at the same rate that the air is rising. The bird appears to "Hover". it is a falcon and as such is a bird of prey. This is the description of a very interesting bird to watch. Why am I telling you all of this?...To demonstrate a connection between creative writing and fact.
Windhover is the common name in Europe used for the  common Kestrel. Gerard Manley Hopkins, who lived in the mid- 1800s wrote about the common Kestrel. Today, a casual observer of the common Kestrel, or Windhover would remark: "Cool, that bird seems to be standing still!"
In the mid 1800s, Gerald Manley Hopkins described it as this:

To Christ our Lord

I caught this morning morning's minion, king-

    dom of daylight's dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon, in his riding

    Of the rolling level underneath him steady air, and striding

High there, how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing

In his ecstasy! then off, off forth on swing,

    As a skate's heel sweeps smooth on a bow-bend: the hurl and gliding

    Rebuffed the big wind. My heart in hiding

Stirred for a bird, – the achieve of, the mastery of the thing!

Brute beauty and valour and act, oh, air, pride, plume, here

    Buckle! AND the fire that breaks from thee then, a billion

Times told lovelier, more dangerous, O my chevalier!

     

   No wonder of it: shéer plód makes plough down sillion

Shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear,

    Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion.

What a wonderful observation of nature...
if you are unfamiliar with  John G. Magee, Jr.s  "High Flight" that will be coming to a blog near you very soon!
enjoy your weekend!