单词 | hen hawk |
例句 | Fortunately these two beneficent "hen hawks," are still common, in spite of our ignorant persecution of them for two hundred years or more. Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z "You never made a greater mistake," says E. E., fierce as a hen hawk. Phemie Frost's Experiences Run for a gun! there a hen hawk flies! Memories and Anecdotes We used to shoot and trap crows and hen hawks and small hawks as though they were our mortal enemies. My Boyhood A horned owl perched beside him, and on a branch just above him a hen hawk alighted. The Wonderful Adventures of Nils Both of these slandered "hen hawks" prefer to live in low, wet, wooded places with open meadows for hunting grounds near by. Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z The hen hawk is so named because he rarely or never catches a hen or a chicken. My Boyhood But before that I was once scared into a panic by a high-soaring hen hawk. My Boyhood Farmers were wont to stand up poles in their meadows and set steel traps on the top of them to catch the hen hawks that came for the meadow mice which were damaging their meadows. My Boyhood |
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