| 单词 | green woodpecker |
| 例句 | Mr. Croker’s dæmon, a green woodpecker, drilled vigorously into a waste piece of pine with a sound like a machine gun. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z But it's good news for creatures like the green woodpecker, which enjoys an ant or ten on its summer menu. UK Heatwave 2018: The winners and losers 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z Long grass is the food plant for butterfly caterpillars including meadow browns, ringlets and marbled whites, and home for grasshoppers and meadow ants that attract green woodpeckers. 'It is strange to see the British struggling with the beaver': why is rewilding so controversial? 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z Researchers documented 44 avian species inside the cemetery, including some of conservation concern like the icterine warbler, the spotted flycatcher, and the green woodpecker. City Cemetery Is Alive With Shocking Number of Bats, Spiders Other eggs belonged to species that nest in holes, burrows and cavities, such as hoopoes, little owls and green woodpeckers. Eggshells may act like 'sunblock' 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z Witwal, wit′wawl, n. the popinjay, or green woodpecker, the greater spotted woodpecker. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) 2012-01-30T03:00:19.113Z They were not really alive, but dead and stuffed and set up in life-like attitudes, and one was a squirrel, the other a green woodpecker. Birds and Man 2011-10-20T02:00:25.513Z Then, with a sudden rush of little wings, a green woodpecker flew down from the tree top and perched on a bough just over their heads. The Childhood of Rome 2011-06-02T02:00:22.297Z His love was the shy, green woodpecker, whom he had actually coaxed into nesting in the park. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z Another bird, whom I take for a contented fellow, is the green woodpecker, for he goes through life laughing, but I am not quite sure that I should like his taste in jokes. Rustic Sounds and Other Studies in Literature and Natural History The deep silence of the place is only broken by the cooing of the wood-pigeon, and the occasional piercing note of the green woodpecker. A Week's Tramp in Dickens-Land It was plain that he had no accurate knowledge of birds; if he had caught sight of a kingfisher or green woodpecker, he would probably have described it as a sort of peacock. Birds and Man 2011-10-20T02:00:25.513Z While I was lazily watching a Chinese green woodpecker searching for grubs in a tree near by, there came the faintest sound of a loosened pebble on the cliff above my head. Across Mongolian Plains A Naturalist's Account of China's 'Great Northwest' The crossbill comes very often, and the green woodpecker's cry is quite familiar. Bournemouth, Poole & Christchurch He knew 162 their note at once; but probably the laugh of the green woodpecker vexed him more than most, while he certainly regarded the mocking notes of cuckoos as insults to himself. 'Murphy' A Message to Dog Lovers W. A little further on, I saw a green woodpecker fly to a tree, and run up the trunk like a cat. Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes The green woodpecker was placed vertically against his branch, his side towards his neighbour, his head turned partly round so that he looked directly at him with one eye. Birds and Man 2011-10-20T02:00:25.513Z Two or three rabbits hopped out and fed; humble-bees went buzzing by; a green woodpecker flashed across the glade and disappeared among the trees as if an arrow had been shot into the woods. Wood Magic A Fable Rainbird is a local name for the green woodpecker, but as an East-Anglian name it is most likely an imitative form of Fr. The Romance of Names Well, green woodpeckers aren’t trout, and he wouldn’t take my fly if I dropped it near him, and I don’t want him to. The New Forest Spy Thus the English starling will occasionally impose upon and dispossess the green woodpecker. My Studio Neighbors A green woodpecker took it in his route, though he did not stay long, there not being many trees. Round About a Great Estate Watching these, a green woodpecker cries in the copse, and immediately afterwards flies across the mead, and away to another plantation. Nature Near London In English it was applied not only to the parrot, but also to the green woodpecker. The Romance of Names W. A little farther on I saw a green woodpecker fly to a tree, and run up the trunk like a cat. Young Folks Treasury, Volume 3 (of 12) Classic Tales and Old-Fashioned Stories Every now and then the bright colours of the green woodpeckers flashed to and fro their nest in a tree hard by. The Amateur Poacher A green woodpecker was pecking industriously among some hedgerow oaks, and Pamela, who loved birds and watched them, caught every now and then the glitter of his flight. Elizabeth's Campaign The laughing cry of the green woodpecker, or "yaffle," as the bird is by onomatopoeia called in some parts, is regarded as a sign of rain. Grain and Chaff from an English Manor The bees were already humming about the straw-bound hives along the garden wall, and a misguided green woodpecker clung upside down to the eaves, and thumped at the beams of the house. Master Skylark A mile or so away, at Barnsley Park, where the oaks thrive on a vein of clay soil, green woodpeckers may often be seen and heard. A Cotswold Village The green woodpecker approaches at a rapid pace—now opening, now closing his wings, and seeming to throw himself forward rather than to fly. The Amateur Poacher Chattering jays and loud wood-pigeons flapped thickly overhead, while ever and anon the measured tapping of Nature's carpenter, the great green woodpecker, sounded from each wayside grove. The White Company He throws his basket down to climb the tree And wonders what the red blotched eggs can be: The green woodpecker bounces from the view And hollos as he buzzes bye "kew kew." Poems Chiefly from Manuscript Under the vault of the trees the cry of the green woodpecker has magic sounds. Jean-Christophe, Volume I These are handsome birds, and with the green woodpeckers give colour to the trees. Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies Jays came in couples, and green woodpeckers singly: the magpies cunningly flew aside instead of straight ahead; they never could do anything straightforward. The Amateur Poacher It was a pied woodpecker, not the large green woodpecker, but another kind. The Open Air W. A little further on I saw a green woodpecker fly to a tree, and run up the trunk like a cat. Types of Children's Literature A green woodpecker starts from a tree, and can be watched between the trunks as he flies; his bright colour marks him. The Life of the Fields And while I stood watching them from the palace trees close by came the loud laugh of the green woodpecker. Afoot in England Presently, on rounding some furze, he rises again, this time from the ground, and goes over the open glade; flying, the green woodpecker appears a larger bird than would be supposed if seen when still. The Life of the Fields Another bird that has defied the gun and trap is the green woodpecker, which used to be killed for alleged destruction of timber. The Life of the Fields |
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