Thrushes and blackbirds were just beginning that even-song whose blitheness, as nothing else on earth, seems to promise youth forever to the land.
The blackbirdsout in the orchard were tuning up for evening.
The songs that blackbirds and dusty-coated thrushes flung through Nedda's window when she awoke in Hampstead those May mornings seemed to have been sung by herself all night.
Each one of all these seemed to come now and tweak at him, as the songs of blackbirds tweak the heart of one who lies, unable to get out into the Spring.
For the blackbirds were calling from the branches and the grass, and down beneath the overhanging trees the Lennon flowed in music between its banks.
For a while she heard only the blackbirds calling from the trees in the garden and the throbbing music of the river.
I congratulate the nameless shipper who conceived the bright idea of clothing his Blackbirds in paper.
Stuffed with olives and myrtleberries, the Corsican Blackbirds are exquisite eating.
He gave to childhood his first and best images of the blackbirdswho were baked in the pie.
The crows and theblackbirds followed Father Thrift, too.
And as for the blackbirds and crows, they are the worst thieves in the world.
The same authority gives an instance of a Cat trained like a watch dog, to keep guard over a yard containing a Hare, and some Sparrows, Blackbirds and Partridges.
There is also an instance of a pair of blackbirds following a boy into a house, and pecking at his head, while he was conveying one of their young into it.
But presently the shadows of the pines begin to lengthen, and in the shade thrown by the larches along the meadow side blackbirds are seen making short runs along the ground on foraging expeditions.
The experiments with the Blackbirds and the Whitethroats gave the most interesting results.
Illustration: Male Blackbirds fighting for the possession of territory.
Blackbirds and parrots will unite their numerous tribes, and take the same flight to seek all together a common rest and shelter for a night; it is a law of nature.
I saw blackbirds at this place, and sparrows, and the solitary sandpiper, and the Canada woodpecker, and a large number of humming-birds.
By midsummer, the blackbirds become so bold as to venture within this court.
The Poet quickly huddled on his clothes, and hurried down into the garden, only to find the humane boy on his knees among the dewy plants, eagerly devouring the fruit that the blackbirds should have had!
They simply swarm here: the rooks and sparrows take your young peas, the bullfinches nip off your tender buds, and the blackbirds and thrushes won't leave you a currant or a gooseberry to make your jam of.
The blackbirds and their friends knew not what to make of it.
See there--there's a nice crop ofblackbirds for a single season!
Do you think I took this garden to rob my blackbirdsof their nests?
The man with a sense of humour laughed at these, too, and at the twenty blackbirds in the Senate,--but not so heartily.
The people" having changed the constitution, the blackbirds are reduced from four and forty to a score.
Again the blackbirds sing; the streams Wake, laughing, from their winter dreams, And tremble in the April showers The tassels of the maple flowers.
Our palms are pines, our oranges Are apples on our orchard trees; Our thrushes are our nightingales, Our larks the blackbirds of our vales.
Even the chattering magpies tried to restrain their busy tongues, and the blackbirds indulged in no worse pranks than to suddenly spread their wings and try to push the pigeons off the branch.
The rooks are a very powerful tribe, and the magpies and cuckoos and blackbirds are liable to side with them, if they seem to be stronger than we are.
Harney was annoyed by the number of blackbirds that would feed with the horses, eating the grain; so while the horses were out grazing I asked an officer for a gun to kill some of the birds.
And I says: "Bless your soul, master, I neber have seen as many blackbirds in de cornfields as dey have horses thar; everywhere you go you see dem men on horses.
Mother says theblackbirds would take them if we didn't.
It was spring, and along the tow-path strutted the large, glossy blackbirds which had just come back, and made the boys sick with longing to kill them, they offered such good shots.
Red-winged blackbirds and grackles are often mistaken for them.
The blackbirds make the maples ring With social cheer and jubilee; The red-wing flutes his 'O-ka-lee!
They complain, too, that the blackbirdseat their corn, forgetting that having devoured innumerable grubs from it during the summer, the birds feel justly entitled to a share of the profits.
The blackbirds have strong feet for use upon the ground, where they generally feed, while the orioles are birds of the trees.
But the poor Blackbirds and Thrushes suffered much, for they were weak for want of food; and often the Calf would see them in the hedges crawling over the dead leaves, unable to fly.
Bobolinks, jays, bluebirds, chattering blackbirdsand even crows added their voices to the odd combinations of melody.
Blackbirds flew in noisy flocks from one to another of the dense thickets growing in frequent and extensive patches as far as eye could reach over the low land at either side of the wretched way.
Blackbirds do not damage the white Kaffir corn to the extent they do the ordinary white Egyptian corn.
In fact, blackbirds will not work in a field of this variety of corn if there is any white corn in the vicinity to be had.
Perdriel, to seize all the tame blackbirds he could find in Paris.
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