Fledge Flight

A hedge sparrow, a few weeks out of the nest, follows the evening light across a farm in late summer: hay racks in the meadow, crates in the orchard, then the barns and the old mill on the hill.

Tap to fly a hedge sparrow through gaps in hay racks, orchard crates, barns and windmill sails. Every gap rings a bell; one touch ends the run.

Tap anywhere, or press Space or the up arrow, to beat the sparrow's wings once: it rises and then falls back under its own weight. Between beats the white dots ahead of the bird show where it will glide if you do nothing, so you choose whether to beat now, later or not at all. Fly through the gap in each rack; touching a rack, a crate, a barn, a sail or the grass ends the run, but brushing an edge by a feather is only a graze and you fly on. Each gap rings a bell, and clean gaps in a row raise its note; from the sixth clean gap in a row every gap pays double. Some gaps sway up and down, gently in the Meadow and more in the Orchard; an outline shows where the next one will be when you reach it. From the Orchard on, keep your finger or the key down after a beat to glide level: each bell banks glide, shown under the count. Barn passages are long and low and want a glide, and in the Windmill the sails turn through their gap while you cross it; the faint sails show where they will be when you reach the hub. A glide through a barn or the sails pays extra.