| 单词 | hermit thrush |
| 例句 | But we found solitude while walking for hours on trails and carriage roads; we kept quiet, listening to the liquid song of a hermit thrush from deep in the forest. Don’t call it relaxation. On this Maine island, vacation is for rusticating. 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z Carson portrays an abundance of birds, like the cormorant and the hermit thrush, with its “infinite” sound. Footsteps: Rachel Carson’s ‘Rugged Shore’ in Maine 2012-08-22T20:00:28Z It’s a hermit thrush, and surely no bird was so misnamed, because there is nothing reclusive or haggard about this creature. One of a gardener’s greatest joys: The return of birds during nesting season 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z Some were simple but detailed, like an 1820 drawing of a hermit thrush perched on a branch. Audubon Society Keeps Name Despite Slavery Ties, Dividing Birders 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z Birders call one side of the park Thrush Ridge for the birds — wood thrush, hermit thrush, gray-cheeked thrush and more — that seem to like it there. Perspective | Alexandria’s tiny Monticello Park gains a big honor 2022-07-05T04:00:00Z Robins, bluebirds, hermit thrushes and gray catbirds were among hard-hit types, he said. Bats, birds among wildlife pummeled during Southern freeze 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z The tree hosts dozens of insects and birds such as the blue-headed vireo and hermit thrush, and its year-round shade keeps mountain streams cool enough for trout. To save the hemlock, scientists turn to genetics and natural predators 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z Plant these low-water plants and prepare to see hummingbirds, spotted towhee, mockingbirds, dark-eyed junco, hermit thrush and a sparrow or two. New gardens at the L.A. Zoo show us how we can help birds at home 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z Yet despite its apparent ordinariness, Norwich is home to a probabilities puzzle for the statistics students at Dartmouth College, less than two miles away as the hermit thrush flies. A Tiny Vermont Town Is a Big Cradle of Olympians 2017-12-30T05:00:00Z Fund workers put about 10 birds in cardboard boxes, including a small flock of rehabilitated pigeons and a hermit thrush brought to the fund from Staten Island with an injured foot. A Rite to Improve Karma for Man, Creature and, Now, the Environment 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z He calls the hermit thrush, the Vermont state bird, “the Mozart of the bird world.” Experts say Vermont at height of song-bird season 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z The flutelike songs of the male hermit thrush are some of the most beautiful in the animal kingdom. Top stories: The origin of the penis, humanlike birdsong, and a Milky Way mystery 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z Rather, it seems male hermit thrushes choose to sing notes from these harmonic series. Birds found using human musical scales for the first time 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z Deep in the night I hear a hermit thrush. Voices from the Past 2012-04-19T02:00:30.787Z Hearken to the beat of surf along a lonely shore; to the song of the hermit thrush in dense thickets; to the whisper of the night wind among the leaves: "It is he!" Immortal Youth A Study in the Will to Create 2012-04-03T02:00:30.247Z The wood thrush is less shy than the veery or hermit thrush. Endurance Test or, How Clear Grit Won the Day 2011-12-16T03:00:11.660Z It holds a hidden, solitary place apart—like a rare orchid in the woods, like a hermit thrush. Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories 2011-12-01T03:00:20.193Z It may be that such notes are easier for the males to remember, or provide a ready yardstick for their chief critics—female hermit thrushes. Birds found using human musical scales for the first time 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z “It is a hermit thrush!” explained Mrs. Morrow softly, and her hand clutched Nathalie’s as she pointed to a brown bird that was scudding swiftly over the fern a few feet away. Blue Robin, the Girl Pioneer 2011-07-28T02:00:09.363Z A hermit thrush sang from one of the firs as we came down. A Northern Countryside 2011-04-27T02:00:22.523Z While full and jubilant and clear, All the long day, from dawn till dark, The trill of bobolink we hear, Of hermit thrush and meadowlark. The Cornflower, and Other Poems 2011-04-07T02:00:18.740Z Then we laughed and went to hear the hermit thrush. The Idyl of Twin Fires Vegetable food.—The vegetable diet of the hermit thrush consists largely of fruit, as with most birds of this group. Food Habits of the Thrushes of the United States USDA Bulletin 280 Then suddenly, all unaware, Far off in the deep shadows, where A solitary hermit thrush Sang through the holy twilight hush— I heard His voice upon the air. Later Poems The hermit thrush, with his silver bell, was their brother, and the cat-bird, distressed for the safety of her young, was their sister. Gabriel Tolliver A Story of Reconstruction At dawn, now, from dripping spires, white-throats and hermit thrush, fleeter than the spring, startled the drowsing forest with a reveille of song. The Whelps of the Wolf Maybe in a very lonely spot you'll hear a bird all by himself, with a very sweet song—the hermit thrush. Grenfell: Knight-Errant of the North Every tone of Gracia Ricardo's singing voice is as absolutely free from effort as the repeated note of the hermit thrush's song, and her tone as pure tone has the effect of that liquid call. Vocal Expression A Class-book of Voice Training and Interpretation A duet between a hermit thrush and a Camp Fire Girl! Pemrose Lorry, Camp Fire Girl Every April I see the hermit thrush hopping about the woods, and in case of a sudden snow-storm seeking shelter about the outbuildings; but I never hear even a fragment of his wild, silvery strain. A Year in the Fields But the hermit thrush goes on with sublime indifference to the voices of common folk down below. Upon The Tree-Tops I have also heard a hermit thrush with a similar defect or impediment that appeared to sing entirely to its own satisfaction. Ways of Nature Two species of birds from the Far North are usually represented by a solitary specimen of each, namely, the Alaska hermit thrush and the American pipit, or titlark. Under the Maples Away in the depths of the forest there arose a strain of music, the hermit thrush, in his woodland sanctuary, raising his hymn to the night. Treasure Valley Above the altitude of eight thousand feet you may hear, in June, the marvelous melody of Audubon's hermit thrush. Wild Life on the Rockies The hermit thrush lives in the dark, thick woods, and many people think its song, which is heard in the evening twilight, is sweeter than that of any other bird. Friends in Feathers and Fur, and Other Neighbors For Young Folks I have taken persons to hear the hermit thrush, and I have fancied that they were all the time saying to themselves, "Is that all?" Ways of Nature Practically, and for every-day ends, we may know a robin, or a redstart, or even a hermit thrush, when we see him, without first turning the bird into a specimen. Birds in the Bush He sat for a moment, staring ahead, and then answered in a hushed tone, "There was one they called the hermit thrush." Treasure Valley The hermit thrush seems to suppress one, to give one a touch of reflective loneliness; but the solitaire stirs one to be up and doing, gives one the spirit of youth. Wild Life on the Rockies O hark! how it blooms in the falling dark, That flower of mystical yearning song: Sad as a hermit thrush, as a lark Uplifted, glad, and strong. Gloucester Moors and Other Poems As we approached this place a sound reached us that struck us dumb; it was a hermit thrush not far off. Little Brothers of the Air The rich rufous colouring of the tail proclaims him a singer of singers—a hermit thrush. The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year In this respect it excels the liquid chansons of the mountain hermit thrush, which is justly celebrated as a minstrel, but which does not rehearse a well-defined theme. Birds of the Rockies Suddenly, her ear was caught by a note as of a distant bell; then a tangle of bells, tiny, musical, and the song of the hermit thrush rang out from the far thicket. The Opened Shutters When you sit down on your porch after dark, fifebird and hermit thrush and wood thrush will sing to you; and even whip-poor-will will cheer you up a little. Bird Day; How to prepare for it For instance, he seems always to have confounded the song of the hermit thrush with that of the wood thrush. The Wit of a Duck and Other Papers Emma Dean poised her cup in the air, and, with a far-away look in her eyes, listened intently to the solemn bell note of a hermit thrush. Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders in the Great North Woods The matutinal concert was early in full swing, the hermit thrushes, western robins, and Audubon's warblers being the chief choralists. Birds of the Rockies To scare up a partridge, to scent the pines, to listen to the hermit thrush were meat and drink to him. Forty-one Thieves A Tale of California In the depths of the woods one feels no loneliness; no liquid note of hermit thrush is needed to make that silence music. Under the Trees and Elsewhere The red birds were singing bridal songs in the sugar-trees, and the shy hermit thrush betrayed his domestic secrets by husbandly notes piped from the spice-brush thicket. A Dream of Empire Or, The House of Blennerhassett "Only a few hours ago you were listening to a 'message' from the throat of the bull pup, and now I suppose you are turning your attention to that hermit thrush for the same reason." Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders in the Great North Woods As I left this attractive valley, the hermit thrushes seemed to waft me a sad farewell. Birds of the Rockies Of the smaller birds, the nuthatch, the wood and hermit thrush, whippoorwill, woodpeckers, wood-pewee, and others. On the Trail An Outdoor Book for Girls A beautiful hermit thrush is near but he is silent. Some Spring Days in Iowa The minister had expressed a keen desire to hear the rare notes of the hermit thrush; and this romantic quest led them deep into the forest. An Alabaster Box It was an exquisite bit of forest with the bells of a hermit thrush ringing in one of its towers. A Man for the Ages A Story of the Builders of Democracy The pine forests of the mountain sides are vocal with the refrains of the hermit thrushes. Birds of the Rockies When a hermit thrush sings like that, his nest is somewhere just below. Wilderness Ways The melancholy song of a hermit thrush pierced the stillness. The Day of the Beast The peal of a hermit thrush filled the silence with its golden, largo chime and overtones and died away and rang out again and again. In the Days of Poor Richard "And yet you live the life of a hermit thrush—you have in reality as little part in that bustling turmoil of New York out there as has poor Angela herself." The Wheel of Life They are extremely shy and elusive, evidently believing that hermit thrushes ought to be heard and not seen. Birds of the Rockies All the while the wonderful song went on; for the hermit thrush, pouring his soul out, far above on the dead spruce top, heard not a sound of the tragedy below. Wilderness Ways We rode on in silence with the calls of the swamp robin and the hermit thrush ringing in our ears as the night fell. The Light in the Clearing The hermit thrush may be easily identified by his color; his back being a clear olive-brown becoming rufous on his rump and tail. In the Catskills Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs The mockingbird paused to listen to a note from the hermit thrush in the dense rhododendron, still splendidly abloom on the mountain slope. The Frontiersmen Likewise the hermit thrushes were seen in suitable localities by the way, and also at the highest point we reached that day, an elevation of perhaps ten thousand five hundred feet. Birds of the Rockies That is the hermit thrush, small, delicate, grayish, with spotted breast. The Lake of the Sky Lake Tahoe in the High Sierras of California and Nevada, its History, Indians, Discovery by Frémont, Legendary Lore, Various Namings, Physical Characteristics, Glacial Phenomena, Geology, Single Outlet, Automobile Routes, Historic Towns, Early Mining Excitements, Steamer Ride, Mineral Springs, Mountain and Lake Resorts, Trail and Camping Out Trips, Summer Residences, Fishing, Hunting, Flowers, Birds, Animals, Trees, and Chaparral, with a Full Account of the Tahoe National Forest, the Public Use of the Water of Lake Tahoe and Much Other Interesting Matter Two hermit thrushes, distant in the forest, began to send up their poignant antiphonal evening chant. Hillsboro People Before it grew quite dark this audible hush was twice broken by the plaintive note of a hermit thrush—a bird so shy that he leaves his mate, seeking his hermitage among forgotten places. The Lady of Big Shanty We are treated to peeps into the nests of the orange-crowned warbler, the hermit thrush, and that shy wader, the spotted sandpiper. The New North Raw as the morning was, the hermit thrushes, mountain chickadees, Audubon's warblers, gray-headed juncos, and ruby-crowned kinglets were giving a lively rehearsal. Birds of the Rockies "Good-by, Dory—dear," she was murmuring, a note in her voice like the shy answer of a hermit thrush to the call of her mate. The Second Generation Then came the hermit thrush, heard only in the depth of the forest, shy and remote in his life and nesting, and the whip-poor-will, in the evening. The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I Then a catbird and a brown thrush sang against a grosbeak and a hermit thrush. A Girl of the Limberlost If you symbolize the hermit thrush by the flute, you must call the wood thrush a chime of little tinkling bells. The Forest The birds were about the size of the hermit thrushes, but lither and suppler. Birds of the Rockies I have heard a bobolink and a hermit thrush with similar defects of voice. The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton The major is scarcely a bird of which you can make a pet in your mind, as you may of the chickadee, for instance, or the bluebird, or the hermit thrush. A Florida Sketch-Book Back in the deep woods a hermit thrush was singing his chant to the rising sun. A Girl of the Limberlost Somewhere in the distance a dog barked; and on the gentle breeze came the song of a hermit thrush, with an undertone of cooing pigeons. Purple Springs It was doubtless either the veery, or the hermit thrush, and this was my first clear view of it. Our Friend John Burroughs In a low bottom, among some red cedars, I saw robins and several hermit thrushes, besides the yellow-rumped warbler. The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton The two songs have about as much in common as those of the hermit thrush and the brown thrasher, or those of the song sparrow and the chipper. A Florida Sketch-Book He may have been unable to distinguish between the song of the wood thrush and the hermit thrush. History of American Literature In La Grande Br�lure, a hermit thrush perched upon a dry tree in a swampy place and sang most divinely. Locusts and Wild Honey A hermit thrush singing in moonlight above a Catskill clove will move him. Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism The following instances are cited, out of many that are remembered: A wild hermit thrush, only two weeks in captivity, escaped from an outdoor cage. The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations The captive princess, captured because she had learned the secret of the bird language, began a little plaintive whistling call, soft, sweet, musical as a flute; the perfect notes of the hermit thrush. Peggy Stewart: Navy Girl at Home Why does he select the lilacs, evening star, and hermit thrush, as the motifs of the poem, When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd? History of American Literature In going down I was aware all the time of a beautiful bird-song off on my left, a song almost as sweet as that of our hermit thrush, but of an entirely different order. Time and Change Philomel has the color, manners, and habits of a thrush,—our hermit thrush,—but it is not a thrush at all, but a warbler. Birds and Poets : with Other Papers And it was hidden as cunningly from casual eyes as ever was a hermit thrush's nest. Black Caesar's Clan : a Florida Mystery Story He struck me as bearing a close resemblance to our hermit thrush, with something in his manners that suggested the water-thrush also. Winter Sunshine If we take the quality of melody as the test, the wood thrush, hermit thrush, and the veery thrush stand at the head of our list of songsters. Wake-Robin It was sweet, firm, deep, with something haunting in it—the tone of a hermit thrush, marvelously pure and clear, carried through a gay strain like the mocking-bird's. Alice of Old Vincennes Here the threnody is blent of three chords, the blossoming lilac, the evening star, and the hermit thrush, the latter playing the most prominent part throughout the composition. Birds and Poets : with Other Papers The orchids bloom in gloomy swamps, far removed from the haunts of men; the morning and evening hymn of the hermit thrush rises from solitary places- -along wild lakes and among high mountains. See America First Then in the depths of the forest, perhaps near at hand, perhaps far away, a single hermit thrush began to sing. The Blazed Trail In summer he is one of those birds of the deep northern forests, that, like the speckled Canada warbler and the hermit thrush, only the privileged ones hear. Wake-Robin Now it is dusky, And the hermit thrush and the black and white warbler Are singing and answering together. Poems By a Little Girl Certainly the African jungle seems to produce no individual performers as sustained as our own bob-o-link, our hermit thrush, or even our common robin. The Land of Footprints Here also I met my beautiful singer, the hermit thrush, but with no song in his throat now. Wake-Robin Down deep in the blackness of the ancient woods a hermit thrush uttered his solemn bell note, like the tolling of the spirit of peace. The Blazed Trail The hermit thrush may be easily identified by his color; his back being a clear olive-brown becoming rufous on his rum and tail. Wake-Robin |
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