This is also the date when the Little Bitternand Squacco Heron are due.
Those were bitter moments: but since then we have killed many a bittern while snipe-shooting, and could have killed many more had there been any object; for they lie very close, and offer a mark like a haystack.
The Bittern lays its pheasant-like eggs in April, often in March; the Little Bittern not till June.
Amidst umbrageous gloom the Night-Heron and Bittern dream away the hours of daylight, the former among the branches, the latter in thickest sedge.
When both barrels were emptied, I had time to perceive that a bittern was slowly flapping away.
The bittern of the Scotch sea-salt works is muriate of magnesia, mixed, with a little sulphate of magnesia and chloride of sodium.
The Bittern is there less than in England, and does not make that sounding Noise that ever I heard.
Bittern and the mode of its production, and in a foot-note in the same place is a curious anecdote illustrating the difficulty of detecting a wounded Bittern, even when marked down in short, recently mown grass and flags.
At this comprehensive question, the bittern gave a hollow croak, and flew away with his long legs trailing behind him.
The habitat of the American bittern covers the whole of temperate and tropical North America, north to latitude about 60 degrees, south to Guatemala, Cuba, Jamaica and the Bermudas.
Frank Forrester included the bittern among the list of his game birds, and it is asked what higher authority we can have than his.
We have never seen a bitternexcept along water courses.
It is probable that the Argentine Tiger-Bittern belongs to the same form, but we have not yet met with adult specimens of it.
When disturbed they rose together, the Bittern with its harsh grating scream, the Sandpiper daintily piping its fine bright notes--a wonderful contrast!
The Bittern patiently watched for small fishes, and when not fishing dozed on a low branch overhanging the water; while its companion ran briskly along the margin snatching up minute insects from the water.
Berlepsch has recently shown that the Tiger-Bittern of Paraguay differs from Tigrisoma brasiliense (which it generally resembles in plumage) in having the base of the lower mandible partly feathered as in T.
It may, therefore, be as well to point out the principal distinctions between this bird and the Common Bittern last mentioned.
The American Bittern is not mentioned in Professor Ansted's list, no specimen having been found in the Channel Islands till after the publication of his list, and of course there is no specimen in the Museum.
The Bittern is included in Professor Ansted's list, but only marked as occurring in Guernsey.
I had also part of some of the quill-feathers of a Bitternsent to me for identification by Mrs. Jago, which had been killed in the Islands the last week in January, 1879.
The Little Bittern is included in Professor Ansted's list, and marked as occurring in Guernsey.
The bittern and ericius shall possess it: and the ibis and the raven shall dwell in it: and a line shall be stretched out upon it, to bring it to nothing, and a plummet, unto desolation.
And common salt also affords a small quantity of this powder; because being separated from the bittern by one hasty crystallization only, it necessarily contains a portion of that liquor.
But as that liquor is not always easily procured, I afterwards made use of a salt called epsom-salt, which is separated from the bittern by crystallization, and is evidently composed of magnesia and the vitriolic acid.
We had seen an American bittern boom--a rarer sight even than the drumming of a ruffed grouse or the strange flight-song of the woodcock at twilight.
It was the least bittern singing the only song she knew, in celebration of the fact that she still had her eggs safe.
Suddenly thebittern stopped and, hunching its neck, stepped stealthily, like a little old bent man, into the sedges.
The common European bittern is Botaurus stellaris.
This bird, we are told, is of the bittern kind, somewhat less than the lapwing.
I will make Babylon a possession for the bittern and pools of water.
While I was looking at the Place, the Dog, being out of Patience, seized Hold of this Phoenomenon, which proved to be no other than the Bittern itself.
Here I must beg Leave to put in a Word or two, by way of corroborating what has been said about the Heron and the Bittern lying flat upon their Nests, with their Legs parallel to the Plain of the Horizon.
That the Bittern puts his Bill or Beak into a Reed, and that the Reed gives, by the Breath and Motion of the Beak of the Bird, that deep and loud Note which we so frequently hear him make as he lies in a Fenn.
One particular Proof that Bitternis the true and ancient Name, may be seen in Stephens's Monasticon.
When the aforesaid Bittern rose up, I shot, and wounded him slightly, and marked him down again in the same Kind of Grass or short mowed Flags.
The Bittern and the Hoopoe "Where do you like best to feed your flocks?
The bittern pastured his flocks on rich green meadows where flowers grew in abundance, so his cows became wild and unmanageable.
When it was evening, and the shepherds wanted to drive their cows homewards, the bittern could not get his together again; they were too high- spirited, and ran away from him.
Signs of life there were none, save when the bitternrose from its nest, amidst the long reeds or sedgy grass, or the moor fowl flew over the surface of the inky water, which here and there collected into pools.
I hear the bittern boom, and the woodpecker tap, but that is all.
The Bittern was well known to the ancients, and Aristotle mentions the fable of its origin from staves metamorphosed into birds.
At the same time also the “boom” of the bittern might still be heard in the marshy parts of the same ground, but they are also now among the has been’s.
No more shall bittern boom, No more shall blackcock crow: For both have met their doom, The sport of human foe.
A booming bittern I know sits hour after hour, almost every day in summer, year after year, on a dark, decaying pile of an old dock in the creek.
The rising of a red-winged blackbird from his home in the sedges, the rattle of the kingfisher on his way up the creek, or the leisurely flapping of a bittern over the marshes is enough to start the chattering chorus.
But the Bittern is never found except alone, or at the most accompanied for a time by its mate and one or two young ones.
Secure in its retreat, the Bittern keeps its place even if a sportsman should pass by the spot on which it crouches.
The cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and He shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.
But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl (yanshuph) also and the raven shall dwell in it: and He shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.
The bittern shall dwell there' is the final curse, and implies that the place is to become uninhabited and uninhabitable.
The nest of the Bittern is placed on the ground, and near the water, though the bird always takes care to build it on an elevated spot which will not be flooded if the water should rise by reason of a severe rain.
The very cry of the Bittern adds to this atmosphere of desolation.
Like most of the long-legged wading birds, the Bittern is able to change its shape, and apparently to alter its size, in an astonishing manner.
The Bittern is represented in one of its extraordinary attitudes on the plate which illustrates the cormorant.
There is, however, but little reason for the Bittern to fear a flood, as at the time of year which is chosen for nest-building the floods are generally out, and the water higher than is likely to be the case for the rest of the year.
There was formerly an idea that, when the Bittern uttered this booming cry, it thrust its bill into the soft ground, and so caused it to shake.
The Bittern belongs to the same family as the herons, the cranes, and the storks, and has many of the habits common to them all.
I went to the other islets, searched bog and tangle, and finally pulled away disappointed, giving the least bittern credit for considerable mother-wit and woodcraft.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bittern" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
