| 单词 | fieldfare |
| 例句 | The hovering fieldfare is posed as an artists might paint it, the delicate yellow of the frozen berries echoing its breast feathers. Shot of ants in action claims top wildlife photography prize 2010-10-21T09:58:00Z On a smaller scale, the two Scandinavian thrush species, redwings and fieldfares, are starting to arrive, and they will be joined by other charming northern songbirds, such as bramblings and snow buntings. Nature got us through lockdown. Here's how it can get us through the next one 2020-10-03T04:00:00Z Thrushes, blackbirds, redwings and fieldfares feast on berries throughout the winter. Why are there so many berries this year? 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z To be honest at first I was more excited about a picture I’d taken earlier, which I had thought was a fieldfare – a type of thrush. 2015: Eyewitness accounts of the year’s most defining moments 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z The fellfare or fieldfare, a little thrush, feeds upon the tempting red berries in winter; but even when these dashes of color are all gone, the brilliance of the spiny-margined leaves enlivens any landscape. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z Thrushes and blackbirds come to the hedges surrounding these meadows; the fieldfares and redwings are there by hundreds, and fly up to the trees if alarmed. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z We have found many nests of the latter in the trees, and one of a fieldfare in a bank. Three in Norway by Two of Them 2011-07-10T02:00:15.900Z In Chaucer's "Romaunt of the Rose," we find the poet using the expression, "Farewel fieldfare," a valediction on summer friends that, like the wild and migratory fieldfare, take to themselves wings and depart. Proverb Lore Many sayings, wise or otherwise, on many subjects, gleaned from many sources In the winter the down is left to the hares and fieldfares. The Hills and the Vale Small birds, such as woodcocks, snipes, blackbirds, thrushes, fieldfares, rails, quails, wheatears, larks, martins, and sparrows, are to be boiled in strong broth, or in salt and water. The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families Flocks of redwings and fieldfares are commonly seen during the end of the season. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z Nightingales arrive early in April; wagtails, turtle doves, and cuckoos come late in April; woodcock come in the autumn, and redpoles and fieldfares also come here for the winter. Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts For this time he rode under tall poplar-trees and between green hedgerows, where the cuckoos and fieldfares sang all day long. Gabriel and the Hour Book The moderns have seldom thought of raising game artificially; among the Romans, artificial raising was confined to the hare and fieldfare. Principles Of Political Economy Is this more pleasant to you than the whir Of meadow lark, and its sweet roundelay, Or twitter of little fieldfares, as you take Your nooning in the shade of bush and brake? Conservation Reader It should be remarked that neither redwing nor fieldfare sings during the winter; they of course have their ‘call’ and cry of alarm, but by no stretch of courtesy could it be called a song. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z "No more, than that one of those fieldfares, if you should catch it and fasten a leash round its neck, would say it was well done that its time of free flying was over." The Old Helmet, Volume I He was amazed at the quantity of birds that he met with—thrushes, wagtails, warblers, chifchaffs, fieldfares, and red-poles rose at every step. Condemned as a Nihilist A Story of Escape from Siberia It appears that redwings and fieldfares are caught by this method also, as well as a few ring-ousels and blackbirds. Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy. Thereupon the bird made answer, And the fieldfare answered chirping:70 'Brilliant is the day in summer, But a maiden's lot is brighter. Kalevala, Volume I (of 2) The Land of the Heroes Following the course of the stream, fieldfares and redwings rise in numbers from every hawthorn bush, where they have been feeding on the peggles. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z I was thinking of the time I saw the fieldfares last,—when they were gathering together preparing for their taking flight; and now here they are back again! The Old Helmet, Volume I Flocks of crazy, distracted birds flew close by in great numbers, for the most part finches and larks, with here and there a fieldfare or two, their breasts and underwings buff colour. 'Murphy' A Message to Dog Lovers Besides which in a short time he will receive large reinforcements, for his allies, the fieldfares and redwings, are preparing to set sail across the sea hither. Wood Magic A Fable “Verily, some folks be born as old as their grandmothers,” said Agatha, accepting a fieldfare from the sewer, and squeezing a lemon over it. The White Lady of Hazelwood A Tale of the Fourteenth Century Rooks, starlings, wood-pigeons, fieldfares, and redwings, may be seen in winter all feeding in the same field, and all in large flocks. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z With this he had shot water-rats, sparrows, and, on one occasion when they were very numerous, fieldfares; but not flying—he had never attempted that. Dr. Jolliffe's Boys Sure there can be no doubt but that woodcocks and fieldfares leave us in the spring, in order to cross the seas, and to retire to some districts more suitable to the purpose of breeding. The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1 The clouds were hurrying up from the north-west, and threatening to overcast the pale evening sky, quivering flocks of fieldfares whirred over her, and the gold and purple were fast losing their brilliant tints. Garthowen A Story of a Welsh Homestead When frost prevents access to food in the east, thrushes and blackbirds move westwards, just as the fieldfares and redwings do. Nature Near London Wood-pigeons go to the few places that remain moist, and also frequent the hawthorn bushes with the fieldfares. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z Wild ducks, woodcocks, fieldfares, and curlews are coming now, besides thrushes, larks, and other small birds. The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 357, October 30, 1886 Hence we may be assured that fieldfares and redwings build in Sweden. The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1 Or, if the season were autumn, the children were told to watch for the arrival of the woodcock and the earliest flock of Norwegian fieldfares. More Tales of the Ridings On the southern side of London, at least in the districts I am best acquainted with, there was hardly a fieldfare or redwing to be seen for weeks and even months. Nature Near London Is this more pleasant to you than the whirr Of meadow-lark, and its sweet roundelay, Or twitter of little fieldfares, as you take Your nooning in the shade of bush and brake? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863 Of acquired knowledge; of foxes, rooks, fieldfares, lapwings, dogs, cats, horses, crows, and pelicans. Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life Was not Tenant, when a boy, mistaken? did he not find a missel-thrush’s nest, and take it for the nest of a fieldfare? The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1 When the fieldfare's flight is slow, And a rosy vapor rim, Now the sun is small and low, Belts along the region dim. The Aldine, Vol. 5, No. 1., January, 1872 A Typographic Art Journal The fieldfares, too, as I have previously observed, do not stay. Nature Near London There are threads of brilliant scarlet upon the hazel in February, though the gloom of winter lingers and the 'Shuck—a—sheck!' of the fieldfare fleeing before the snow sounds overhead. The Amateur Poacher I have followed the swallows, but the fieldfares and the buntings must also go soon. The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour The martins and red-wing fieldfares were flying in sight together, an uncommon assemblage of summer and winter birds! The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1 I am allowed to have game; and the doctor said that fieldfares were very wholesome for me. Beethoven's Letters 1790-1826, Volume 2 Among the birds to be served up we see cranes, peacocks, swans, and wild geese; and of the smaller varieties, fieldfares, plovers, and larks. Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine Then fieldfares, redwings, starlings, and others prefer the meadows that are dotted with them. The Amateur Poacher The fieldfares will soon be here now, and the redwings, coming as they have done for generations about the time of the sowing of the corn. Hodge and His Masters The throstle, the red-wing, and the fieldfare, which migrated in March, now return; and the ring-ouzel arrives from the Welsh and Scottish Alps to winter in more sheltered situations. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 271, September 1, 1827 Of our winter visitants that come to take the place of the summer migrants the fieldfare is the commonest and most familiar. A Cotswold Village Meaning that, as fieldfares disappear at a particular season, the season is over, the bird is flown. The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire The fieldfares, or felts, as we called them, were in flocks in winter, but with them I never succeeded. The Early Life of Mark Rutherford (W. Hale White) Two or more fieldfares were watching in an elm some distance down; the flock to which they belonged was feeding, partly in the meadow and partly in the hedge. Hodge and His Masters The very rooks are black, and the starlings and the wintry fieldfares and redwings have no colour at a distance. Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies A great fieldfare rises, like a lesser pigeon; fieldfares often haunt the verge of woods, while the redwing thrushes go out into the meadows. The Life of the Fields In the bushes of the garden, and the tall poplars that bordered the moat, blackbirds and fieldfares chattered their winter evening song, while about the grey tower of the neighbouring church the daws still wheeled. The Lady of Blossholme She neither shrieked nor fainted; but no poor January fieldfare was ever colder, no ice-house more dank with perspiration, than she was then. The Hand of Ethelberta The fieldfare visits this country only in hard wintry weather. The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems The bitter north wind drives even the wild fieldfare to the berries in the garden hedge; so it drives stray human creatures to the door. Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies The martins and red-wing fieldfares were flying in sight together; an uncommon assemblage of summer and winter birds. The Natural History of Selborne The birds are silent; Even the little fieldfares in the corn No longer twitter; only the grasshoppers Sing their incessant song of sun and summer. The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Sure there can be no doubt but that woodcocks and fieldfares leave us in the spring, in order to cross the seas, and to retire to some districts more suitable to the purpose of breeding. The Natural History of Selborne Hence we may be assured that fieldfares and redwings breed in Sweden. The Natural History of Selborne Starlings were not at all plentiful; blackbirds and thrushes were there, but not nearly so numerous as is usually the case; fieldfares and redwings drifted by in the winter, but never stopped. Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies Was not Tenant, when a boy, mistaken? did he not find a missel-thrush's nest, and take it for the nest of a fieldfare? The Natural History of Selborne |
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