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单词 vesper sparrow
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The spring birder may see trumpeter swans, secretive vesper sparrows, indigo buntings and blue-winged warblers. Birds by the Billions: A Guide to Spring’s Avian Parade 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z
However sung, the song, which makes the uplands tuneful all day and every day from April to August, does not vary its quality, which is as fine as the vesper sparrow's. Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z
Like the vesper sparrows, these birds sometimes build a plain, grassy nest, unprotected by overhanging bush, flat upon the ground. Bird Neighbors An Introductory Acquaintance with One Hundred and Fifity Birds Commonly Found in the Gardens, Meadows, and Woods About Our Homes 2011-10-14T02:00:28.840Z
That is not the nest of the grasshopper sparrow, after all; those are the eggs of the song sparrow, though the nest is more like that of the vesper sparrow. Camping & Tramping with Roosevelt
Under my window on the other side came a vesper sparrow family. Upon The Tree-Tops
Skylark, song of, 32-34, 37; in America, 33, 34; Scotchman and, 33; Irishman and, 34; wooing a vesper sparrow, 40; a caged, 69. Ways of Nature
I read such a word the other morning when I perceived, when watching a young but fully fledged junco, or snowbird, that its markings Were like those of the vesper sparrow. Under the Maples
The little stream danced along at their side, touched here and there with the gold of the sunset, the vesper sparrows had gathered for their twilight chorus, and the valley was vibrating with music. Treasure Valley
The hilltops were flushed with rose, the valleys steeped in purple, and the vesper sparrows filled the golden twilight with their music. The Silver Maple
Night had come, and with it the insistent chorus of tree-toad and katydid, interspersed with the song of the vesper sparrow. Seven Miles to Arden
One summer, up in the Catskills, I added another name to my list of ecstatic singers—that of the vesper sparrow. Ways of Nature
And the young junco shows, in its striped appearance of breast and back, and the20 lateral white quills in the tail, its kinship to the grass finch or vesper sparrow. Under the Maples
Here was only the murmur of the water over the white stones, or the even-song of the vesper sparrows in the sumachs along the banks. Treasure Valley
Only the vesper sparrows were here, filling the amber twilight with their soft murmurs, and away in the dim green aisles of the Slash a phoebe was calling sweetly. In Orchard Glen
Through the stillness the whispers of the great elm on the lawn could be heard blending with the song of a vesper sparrow. The Wall Between
One day I was lucky enough to see the bird as it was rising to its climax in the air, and to identify it as the vesper sparrow. Ways of Nature
Sitting in my barn-door study I see a vesper sparrow fly up and alight on the telephone wire with nesting-material in her beak. Under the Maples
The vesper sparrow, the veery, and a host of other friends were singing about the hotel and along the roadside, but we heeded them not. The Foot-path Way
No sign of human life was here, and the sweet song of a vesper sparrow was the only sound which broke the stillness of the evening. The Unknown Wrestler
And when you go home tired after sundown, vesper sparrow will tell you how grateful we are. Bird Day; How to prepare for it
From out the dimness the note of a vesper sparrow sounded and mingled its sweetness with the faintly breathing ocean. Flood Tide
The vesper sparrow was thus happily named by a New England bird-lover, Wilson Flagg, an old-fashioned writer on our birds, fifty or more years ago. Under the Maples
Once more to the frost-bound valley Comes April with rain in her jar; I can hear the vesper sparrow Under the silver star. More Songs From Vagabondia
There was peace upon water and land, broken only by the sweet song of a vesper sparrow, and the tingling of a bell from a distant pasture. Jess of the Rebel Trail
The hemp-stalks bend so low under the weight of their plumes, that were a vesper sparrow to alight on one for his evening hymn, it would go with him to the ground. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1
Once more beneath our eager feet the forest carpet springs, We march through gloomy valleys, where the vesper sparrow sings. The Habitant and Other French-Canadian Poems
This vesper sparrow in bringing food to her young, going through the same tactics over and over, learns no more than a machine would. Under the Maples
What was especially interesting was that the lark had "singled out with affection" one of our native birds, and the one that most resembled its kind, namely, the vesper sparrow, or grass finch. The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton
So is the evening song of the vesper sparrow, which one may hear all summer long floating out from these sweet pastoral solitudes. My Boyhood
I remembered the saying of a friend, that the song of the white-crown had reminded him of the vesper sparrow and the black-throated green warbler. A Florida Sketch-Book
Still at evenfall in the upland The vesper sparrow sings, And the brooklet in the pasture Still waves its glassy rings. Our Friend John Burroughs
The vesper sparrow has only peace and gentleness in its strain. Birds and Poets : with Other Papers
The song is of the sparrow kind, and, in its best parts, perpetually suggested the notes of our vesper sparrow; but the wonder of it is its copiousness and sustained strength. Winter Sunshine
As they fly up, they show two or three white quills in the tail, like the vesper sparrow. Wake-Robin
The strain opens with smooth, sweet notes almost exactly like the introductory syllables of the vesper sparrow. A Florida Sketch-Book
Like the vesper sparrows, these birds sometimes build a plain, grassy nest, unprotected by over hanging bush, flat upon the ground. Bird Neighbors
It was the song of the vesper sparrow and the white-throat in one. Birds and Poets : with Other Papers
The soft, mellow flute of the veery fills a place in the chorus of the woods that the song of the vesper sparrow fills in the chorus of the fields. Wake-Robin
His song is most noticeable after sundown, when other birds are silent; for which reason he has been aptly called the vesper sparrow. Wake-Robin
It is soft and very pretty; not so perfect a piece of art as the vesper sparrow's tune,— few bird-songs are,—but taking for its very oddity, and at the same time tender and sweet. A Florida Sketch-Book
They sing much after sundown, hence the aptness of the name vesper sparrow, which a recent writer, Wilson Flagg, has bestowed upon them. Wake-Robin
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