单词 | wood pewee |
例句 | “How would you know about a wood pewee in your business?” My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z One morning before the wood pewees were up, I was smoking a mess of fish I had caught in the stream. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Stretched on the boughs, I listened to the wood pewees calling their haunting good nights until I fell sound asleep. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z “There’s your eastern wood pewee,” he says with excitement, steadying the laser on the tree trunk next to the sitting bird. Birders find an oasis awaits in Manhattan’s concrete jungle 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z The impacted species include blackbirds, flycatchers, sparrows, swallows, warblers and the western wood pewee. Massive numbers of birds are dying in New Mexico and no one knows why 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z A bobolink's bubbling carol is unthinkable in a jungle, and the strain of a wood pewee on a sunny hillside would be like an organ playing dance-music. Atlantic Classics, Second Series 2011-12-09T03:00:20.203Z Without hearing this call-note one might often mistake the bird for either the wood pewee or the phœbe, for all the three are similarly clothed and have many traits in common. 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 The woodland thrushes' flutes and bells have ceased to breathe and chime, only the wood pewee keeps his pensive song of other days, yet best befitting those of declining summer. In New England Fields and Woods 2011-07-27T02:00:26.953Z On the other hand, while the wood pewee is one of the very plainest, there are few, if any, that excel her as an architect. A Rambler's lease 2011-05-22T02:00:11.507Z To my delight the wood pewee flew up in the tree, sat down on a horizontal crotch, and went through the motions of moulding. A-Birding on a Bronco A wood warbler, on the contrary, always brings before me the rush and hurry of the world of people, and the wood pewee its under-current of eternal sadness. Upon The Tree-Tops I think the prize nest of the woods, if we except the nest of the hummingbird, is that of the wood pewee. Under the Maples And once I found a wood pewee in a somewhat similar mood. Birds in the Bush The flycatchers are well represented in the Park, there being no fewer than five species; the least flycatcher, wood pewee, phœbe, crested flycatcher, and kingbird. The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year One day a family of wood pewees visited the dooryard of my tent. Our Bird Comrades I know both the kingbird and the wood pewee sing, not, to be sure, in a way to be compared to the thrushes, though far excelling the utterances of the warblers. Upon The Tree-Tops The plaint of the wood pewee, pensive and like a human sigh, is far from pessimistic, although in a minor key. Under the Maples Like the call of the wood pewee, the wren's radiates coolness and shadowy quiet. Edge of the Jungle The wood pewee builds a neat, compact socket-shaped nest of moss and lichens on a horizontal branch. A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV. The wood pewee and the kingbird succeed, I think, in driving him away; but the vireos and warblers, being so much smaller, suffer greatly from his depredations. Our Bird Comrades Dreamily sitting on a bare twig, the wood pewee is content. Some Summer Days in Iowa Everywhere in these solitudes I am greeted with the pensive, almost pathetic note of the wood pewee. In the Catskills Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs You will find in his poems the wood pewee, the bluebird, the oriole, the robin, the grouse, the kingfisher, the chipmunk, the mink, the bobolink, the wood thrush, all in their proper places. The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton In a pine wood near by, a wood pewee, a pine warbler, a yellow-throated warbler, and a pine-wood sparrow were singing—a most peculiarly select and modest chorus. A Florida Sketch-Book The note of the wood pewee is a human sigh; the chickadee has a call full of unspeakable tenderness and fidelity. Locusts and Wild Honey A blue-jay is just approaching the wood pewee's nest in the burr oak, but the doughty husband does battle with the fierceness of a kingbird and chases him away. Some Summer Days in Iowa The wood pewee is the sweetest voiced, and, notwithstanding the ungracious things I have said of it and of its relations, merits to the full all Trowbridge's pleasant fancies. Birds and Poets : with Other Papers The common or wood pewee excites the most pleasant emotions, both on account of its plaintive note and its exquisite mossy nest. Wake-Robin I noted but one nest of the wood pewee, and that, too, like so many other nests, failed of issue. Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes and Other Papers Without hearing this call-note one might often mistake the bird for either the wood pewee or the phoebe, for all the three are similarly clothed and have many traits in common. Bird Neighbors Latest among the singers are the chewinks, the wood pewees, the field sparrows, and, of course, the goldfinches and the cuckoos. Some Summer Days in Iowa It is only the oriole and the wood pewee that, as a rule, go higher than this. Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes and Other Papers Everywhere in these solitudes I am greeted with the pensive, almost pathetic not of the wood pewee. Wake-Robin The wood pewee builds an exquisite nest, shaped and finished as if cast in a mould. Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes and Other Papers |
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