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Example sentences for "bluebirds"

Lexicographically close words:
blueback; bluebells; blueberries; blueberry; bluebird; bluebottle; bluecoat; bluecoats; blued; bluefish
  1. I want to know if the bank is still there and if the bluebirds and flickers are as thick as ever in Park Lane.

  2. But the bluebirds were darting through leafy bowers and the ploughed, furrowed fields lay smoking in the spring sunshine before Nan came back.

  3. Shortly afterwards a pair of Bluebirds came upon the scene, and coveting the cosy quarters, sought to expel the rightful owners.

  4. The proprietor, perceiving a strong predilection upon the part of the Bluebirds for the can, determined to annoy them awhile, and fastened a lath across the entrance, and watched the result.

  5. All questions were settled by the appearance somewhat later of three other young bluebirds who were not cry-babies.

  6. The bag should be examined frequently to liberate bluebirds and wrens, who may have been caught.

  7. Bluebirds seem fond of meal worms such as develop in old cereals.

  8. It was only a few years before the number of bluebirds had risen.

  9. When this number was suddenly reduced the chances to make a bluebird's living were so wondrously multiplied that young bluebirds had such an opportunity in life as their fellows had not had for many long years.

  10. For every year when the bluebirds sing, He shall be part of the lyric spring.

  11. The golden-wings and bluebirds Call to their heavenly choirs.

  12. The twittering bluebirds had finished their tasks.

  13. About him on every side, in the soft sunlight, the bluebirds were flitting here and there, twittering cheerily the while over their bluebird tasks.

  14. Even before the last day of May passes, we see many young birds on their first weak-winged flights, such as bluebirds and robins; but June is the great month of bird homes, as to May belong the migrants.

  15. Our robins and bluebirds are of the orchard and the home of man, but who can claim neighbourship to the bittern or the bullfrog?

  16. So there is something alike about Bluebirds and Robins that even a boy can see.

  17. Bluebirds have a call-note and a sweet warbling song.

  18. Come down through the orchard; I hear some Bluebirds singing and perhaps you can see them.

  19. The Robins and Bluebirds soon grew discouraged, and left one by one.

  20. As the Doctor was speaking the shower cloud passed over, and the sun burst out full upon the Bluebirds that were building by the woodshed.

  21. Bluebirds and Wrens and Martins like to live in holes and boxes, though they can't make holes for themselves," said Rap.

  22. An occasional inspection will not be resented, if the Bluebirds know their landlord well.

  23. The original miner might have been a Swallow, but the Bluebirds had certainly enlarged the hole and rounded it.

  24. In nesting, Mountain Bluebirds sometimes display the same confidence shown by the darker species; and their adoption into urban, or at least village life, would seem to be only a matter of time.

  25. Bluebirds have a decided preference for human society, or at least are very quick to appreciate the hospitality of proffered bird-boxes.

  26. It takes so kindly to the boxes we set up for martins, bluebirds and wrens that, where sparrows do not interfere, it now prefers them to the hollow trees, which once were its only shelter.

  27. Young bluebirds are far less wild and noisy than robins, but their very sharp little claws discourage handling.

  28. Now is the time to have ready on top of the grape arbour, or under the eaves of the barn, or nailed up in the apple tree, or set up on poles, the little one-roomed houses that bluebirds are only too happy to occupy.

  29. As you might expect of creatures so heavenly in colour, the disposition of bluebirds is particularly angelic.

  30. If the bluebirds had her courage and hot, quick temper, they would never let the sparrows drive them away from their boxes.

  31. He listens for the return of the bluebirds to the starch-box home he made for them on top of the grape arbour and is strangely excited and happy that bleak day in March when they re-appear.

  32. As two or even three broods {11} of bluebirds may be raised in a box each spring, and as insects are their most approved baby food, you see how much it is to our interest to set up nurseries for them near our homes.

  33. The breathing blossoms stir my blood, Methinks I see the lilacs bud And hear the bluebirds sing, my boys; Why not?

  34. In March you will see the bluebirds often investigating rotten bar-posts, hollow cedars, old woodpecker holes, and decayed apple-tree stumps.

  35. Before the summer was over the wrens and bluebirds and I were the firmest of friends.

  36. Wrens, as you all know, are never much afraid of anyone, but bluebirds are inclined to be shy.

  37. When on a journey, I am almost without eyes or ears for bluebirds and robins, song sparrows and chickadees.

  38. It looked so, surely; but I made little account of the matter till a month afterward, when, in exactly the same place, I observed robins and bluebirds following the same course.

  39. Bluebirds are several times as abundant as in June.

  40. Just the thing," I said; "surely the bluebirds will prefer this to an artificial box.

  41. But, lo and behold, it already had bluebirds in it!

  42. We had learned something, too; we had learned that when in the deep woods you think of bluebirds, bluebirds may be nearer you than you think.

  43. We had not heard a sound or seen a feather till the trunk was in our hands, when, on peering into the cavity, we discovered two young bluebirds about half grown.

  44. Spring knocks at winter's frosty door: In boughs by wild March breezes swayed The bonnie bluebirds sing once more.

  45. Along the reedy river's shore, Fleet fauns will frolic unafraid, The bonnie bluebirds sing once more.

  46. The swallow soon will northward soar, The rush uplift its gleaming blade, The bonnie bluebirds sing once more.

  47. And Love, the Love we lost of yore, Will come to twine the myrtle braid; Spring knocks at winter's frosty door, The bonnie bluebirds sing once more.

  48. Hardly; but a concise description follows this: Bluebirds are larger than the English Sparrow, being about seven inches long.

  49. A pair of bluebirds visited the gourd-shaped nest of an Eave Swallow, built the season before.

  50. Perhaps there will be a time when the bluebirds themselves will not return any more.

  51. The bluebirds come again, as does the same spring, but it does not find the same mortals here to greet it.

  52. The bluebirds made their appearance the 14th day of March; robins and pigeons have also been seen.

  53. The Bluebirds, on the other hand, do not like each other and would not tolerate another pair of Bluebirds nearer than 100 yards.

  54. Prior to March 29, the river bank had been burned over twice for the purpose of improving the grass roots, but the Bluebirds never seemed to mind it, although the nest was enveloped in clouds of thick smoke both times.

  55. Use our successful bird-houses for Wrens, Chickadees, Bluebirds and Purple Martins.

  56. The Robins and the Bluebirds call and answer all around, And the cheerful little peeptoads seem to crowd the air with sound,-- And yet it is not noisy.

  57. We then made houses for Martins, Wrens, Bluebirds and Flickers, some of which were immediately occupied.

  58. The bluebirds were specially delighted with these houses, and took possession almost as fast as they were put up.

  59. Besides building little houses for bluebirds and others, a very effective means of attracting birds generally is a little tray for crumbs, seeds, etc.

  60. A further search only frightened a prairie chicken from beneath a hawthorne bush, where he had meant to pass the night; and the bluebirds were not seen again.

  61. But the sight of bluebirds in Iowa on the nineteenth day of February is glory enough for one day.

  62. It was composed of all the birds I have just named, with flocks of bluebirds and goldfinches thrown in for good measure.

  63. That as much as anything has driven our genteel bluebirds away from our homes into the woods and other out-of-the-way places.

  64. Nathalie impetuously; "I found a nest of tiny bluebirds down in the old cedar-tree on the lawn!

  65. The robins and the bluebirds came here about the middle of February, and if it does not get colder, willow "pussies" will be out in a few days.

  66. Then the bluebirds hide, And the buds stand still, And the flowers droop and shrink With a sudden chill, And the young vines stop Growing in the wood, Waiting patiently until He is gone for good.

  67. We have heard robins and bluebirds singing.


  68. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bluebirds" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.