| 单词 | yellowhammer |
| 例句 | Louder yet calmer than they, among the trees, sounded the yellowhammer, the linnet and greenfinch. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he said, “I not see other rabbits, sir, but a my brother ’e say yellowhammer say is a new rabbits, plenty, plenty rabbits, come to combe over on a morning side. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z At last he saw the first of the dawn, like light faintly perceived round a corner at the far end of an unknown burrow; and in the same moment a yellowhammer sang. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z All was still, save for the grasshoppers and the falling finch song of the yellowhammer on the thorn. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The place was deserted, except for yellowhammers and a few mice pattering about in the sun. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Evidence suggests songbirds can also learn variations in songs from one another and that these changes last across generations: One 2016 study found variations in yellowhammer bird songs were preserved for up to 100 years. These 5 animals have culture. Here’s what they can reveal about our shared evolutionary experience 2023-11-16T05:00:00Z "He knew the hardship of farmers in the 1920s and 30s but he knew it was also incredibly beautiful; there was an amazing wild profusion of yellowhammers, nightingales, linnets, that are a rare sight today." Suffolk nature writer Ronald Blythe dies aged 100 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z He was speaking quietly, because he'd just heard the song of a yellowhammer bird that was hiding in a nearby patch of gorse -- a few short notes followed by a longer one. Mother nature and St. Andrews: James Hutchinson's secret wars: The Loop 2013-10-16T04:00:00Z These included the linnet, the yellowhammer, starling and lapwing. Farmland bird count comes to an end 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z Ms Shaw said it would set up a new nature reserve to provide a home for a variety of birds including skylarks, linnets, yellowhammers, buzzards and kestrels. Trust aims to buy Dambuster airfield 2013-07-20T06:28:07Z The Woodland Trust said the new forest would create a habitat for wildlife ranging from otters to yellowhammers. 60 Diamond Jubilee Woods revealed 2012-06-01T03:22:20Z When they have finished sucking, the doctor sings again, and puts a yellowhammer’s feather into each ear of the candidate. Creation Myths of Primitive America In relation to the Religious History and Mental Development of Mankind 2012-03-13T02:00:25.633Z We saw a group of linnets, but those birds, he told me, travel in packs, and unfortunately the solitary yellowhammer stayed hidden beneath the gorse. Mother nature and St. Andrews: James Hutchinson's secret wars: The Loop 2013-10-16T04:00:00Z But a human voice was too much for the yellowhammer, and she flew like a dart into the gorse-bushes. A Terrible Tomboy 2012-01-21T03:00:07.003Z I am sorry to say a death occurred on board about this time: it was that of the yellowhammer, that had flown aboard after they had left Shetland. The Cruise of the Snowbird A Story of Arctic Adventure 2011-12-13T03:00:23.197Z So that, although but low and small in comparison with the copse-like hedges of the vale, the hawthorn here is often alive with birds: chaffinches and sparrows perhaps in the greatest numbers, also yellowhammers. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z Habitats like grasslands and hedgebanks continue to be in decline, as do certain birds, such as yellowhammers, down by half, and skylarks, down by a third. Fears of wildlife habitat decline 2011-07-08T10:12:00Z The featured birds were chosen for a specific reason with the the eider duck symbolising the sea and the yellowhammer representing the land. The smallest gallery? The toilet being used for an arts exhibition 2010-05-02T12:04:00Z The notes of the lark, the yellowhammer, the green finch, the blackbird, the thrush, the red-tail, and the titmouse are heard all at once. On the Heights A Novel Only a yellowhammer—the most persecuted bird in all the British Islands—that was what the little stranger was. The Cruise of the Snowbird A Story of Arctic Adventure 2011-12-13T03:00:23.197Z A water-wagtail comes now and then; sometimes the yellow variety, whose colour in the spring is so bright as to cause the bird to resemble the yellowhammer at the first glance. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z Only the blackbird's ceaseless twittering was heard in the bushes, and the yellowhammer's monotonous whistle from the fresh pine-tops. Edelweiss A Story The owner of an orchard may at any time shoot blue-jays, orioles, or yellowhammers. The Apple There were snipe along the river, and flocks of kildees on the Commons, but the bird that was mostly killed by these boys was the yellowhammer. A Boy's Town A dead bird or two were passed, lying in the snow, claws in air and already stiff: a felt and a yellowhammer were side by side at the bottom of the hill. 'Murphy' A Message to Dog Lovers The colour of the yellowhammer appears brighter in spring and early summer: the bird is aglow with a beautiful and brilliant yet soft yellow, pleasantly shaded with brown. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z I have always despised musicologists, makers of programnotes, little men who tell you the opening chords of Opus 67 describe Fate Knocking at the Door or the call of the yellowhammer. Greener Than You Think “Little bit o’ bread and no cheese,” said the yellowhammer. Featherland How the Birds lived at Greenlawn After all, yellowhammers were the chief reliance in the chase; they were pre-occupied, unsuspecting birds, and lit on fence rails and dead trees, so that they were pretty easy to shoot. A Boy's Town I have known a black-fishing expedition stopped because a "yellow yite," or yellowhammer, hovered round the gang when they were setting out. Auld Licht Idylls In the grass the grasshoppers make their hiss, and towards evening the yellowhammers utter a few notes; but while the corn is being reaped the meadows are all but still. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z But the season was still a little too early for the arrival of the robins, the yellowhammers, and the elusive kinglets and thrushes from the southland. A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life Far away in a copse a wood-pigeon called; nearer the blackbirds were whistling; a willow wren uttered his note high in the elm, and a distant yellowhammer sang to the sinking sun. Round About a Great Estate Bright as are the colours of the yellowhammer, when he alights among the brown clods of the ploughed field he is barely visible, for brown conceals like vapour. Nature Near London The yellowhammer is the most persistent individually, but I think the blackbirds when listened to are the masters of the fields. Pageant of Summer There were no chaffinches in the elms or in the road, and scarcely a sparrow; not a yellowhammer on the hedge by the cornfield; only a very few greenfinches; not a single bullfinch or goldfinch. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z Love-making birds were my mates all the road, And who would wish surer delight for the eye Than to see pairing goldfinches gleaming abroad Or yellowhammers sunning on paling and sty? Georgian Poetry 1920-22 And larks aloft, the happy piping fools, And squealing swifts that slid on hissing wings, And yellowhammers playing spry in hedges. Georgian Poetry 1913-15 Chaffinches call and challenge continually—these trees are their favourite resort—and yellowhammers flit along the underwood. Nature Near London The yellowhammer never makes a noise But flies in silence from the noisy boys; The boys will come and take them every day, And still she lays as none were ta'en away. Poems Chiefly from Manuscript Other birds equally deceive the ear: the yellowhammer does sometimes, and the chattering brook-sparrow; so will the blackbird when singing—always provided that they are temporarily invisible. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z Brown partridge, and black rook, and yellowhammer, all hues and degrees, come to the wheat-field. Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies At least, the thrushes sing there sweetly—yellowhammers, too—on the high wall. The Life of the Fields Some yellowhammers suddenly shot along the road in front of her. Women in Love This was the abode, under one roof, of a whole colony of birds, about the size of yellowhammers, but of plain brown plumage. Swiss Family Robinson A yellowhammer has just flown from a bare branch in the gateway, where he has been perched and singing a full hour. The Life of the Fields The yellowhammer is the most persistent individually, but I think the blackbirds when listened to are the masters of the fields. The Life of the Fields The yellowhammer is almost the longest of all the singers; he sits and sits and has no inclination to move. The Life of the Fields |
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