Their movements while feeding or searching for food are very deliberate, though I noticed now and again certain motions when at the extremity of a bough that reminded me of a Kinglet or a Titmouse.
Sutton (1928) at Pymatuning Swamp "was saddled on a horizontal bough only about twenty-five feet from the ground, in a comparatively small hemlock.
The female came to the maple bough with something in her beak and flew down to the briers and back again several times before she dropped to the edge of the nest and fed her young.
So cull the blossoms from the bough Where birds so gayly sing; We'll wreathe them for our queen's pure brow, We'll wreathe them for our king.
Still, I did see a broken bough moving about the garden.
As he did so a large bough which lay in the centre of the footpath thoughtfully drew on one side to let him pass.
Another man started up; the bridging bough was detected, and a volunteer started up the tree that furnished the bridge.
We waded swiftly down it, in the dim forest light, for as much as three hundred yards, and then came across an oak with a great bough sticking out over the water.
Sports and corroborees would be held as usual, until, at a given signal, the younger women were ordered into bough sheds which were round the ring.
Ducks were trapped, too, by makingbough breaks across the shallow part of the creek, with a net across the deep part from break to break.
Her granny probably, or some old woman relation, takes her from the big camp into the scrub where they make a bough shade.
Also you saw one great crooked bough which stretched across the roof like a menacing black arm, forever threatening to descend and crush its rafters in.
It is a bough of the family elm," explained Mr. Van Nicht.
Their long rough grass huts being a broken bough or a few sticks stuck up and long grass thrown over.
Thy stately Pine is yet unbent, Though many a goodly bough is rent.
There the robin still sang his rather pensive tune; and there from a high ash-bough a missel-thrush, wearing full ermine of the Spring, saluted the vestal day.
Scarcely a leaf or bough was in motion, excepting at intervals we caught the sound of the breeze stirring the lofty heads of the pine-trees, and wakening a hoarse and mournful cadence.
The sailors had not forgotten a greenbough or two to adorn the ship, and the bird-cage was soon as bowery as leaves could make it.
A very curious bird's-nest was given me by one of our choppers; it was woven over a forked spray, so that it had all the appearance of having been sewn to the boughwith grey thread.
At last, from a bough high up where the sky commenced, his impish face gazed down on them.
Only a magpie noticed their passage and became interested, fluttering from boughtobough and asking them, "What d'you want?
Unenlightened man-- A savage, roaming through the woods and wilds In quest of prey, and with th' unfashiomed fur Bough clad.
In its boughs frisked and gambolled a squirrel called Busybody, which carried gossip from bough to root and back.
One fell into the next bough below, but the other went fluttering into the hedge under the tree.
Ere we reached it the pines had fallen away, the haunted wood was behind us, our steps were set through a fairy world of greening bough and springing bloom.
One fled to heaven, of earth afraid; And one to earth, with eyes untrue And lips of faltering passion, strayed: Nor shall the strenuous years renew On any bough these leaves that fade.
A sudden blast of wind lifted a cloud of dust from before them and twisted it down among the meadows; the sun thrust aside his shroud and burnt for an instant on a scarlet maple-bough that hung in premature brilliance across the way.
He hurled the burning bough at it, whereon it dropped Masouda, and rearing itself straight upon its hind legs, stretched out its claws, and seemed about to fall on him.
In an instant, the blazing boughstill in his hand, he was back by the cave, and lo!
Straw beds were raised on logs of wood, tools lying about, and a forked bough of a tree was generally suspended from the roof in the middle to hang a kettle upon.
Jack slipped his foot into the crutch where a bough struck away from the parent stem, swung himself up, and tumbled into the hollow, which was an irregular circle about nine feet across.
Saya Chone, and he rushed down the slope waving a smoking bough about his head.
No wind stirred the air, but ever and anon a bright avalanche would slide from bough or bush, sparkle and gleam as the sun caught it, and then sink gently into the deep lap spread below.
For one who all too long Clings to his bough among the groves of song; Autumn's last leaf, that spreads its faded wing To greet a second spring.
But at last the bough is bare Where the coupons one by one Through their ripening days have run, And the bond, a beggar now, Seeks investment anyhow, Anywhere!
There were peach-blossoms, too, and the yellow jasmine was opening its multitudinous buds, climbing over tall trees, and waving from bough to bough.
