Mocker the Mockingbird and Kitty the Catbird belong to Brownie's family, and that makes them second cousins to me.
He heard Kitty the Catbird meowing among the bushes along the old stone wall, so hurried over to look for him.
THE catbirdbelongs to the family of thrushes, and is one of the most peculiar of our American birds.
And sometimes she crept into the bushes herself, hoping to surprise Mr. Catbird and teach him a lesson.
Mr. Catbird knew right away that he hadn't caught the trick of mocking Bobby Bobolink.
So when the Bobolinks were away from home on a short trip Mr. Catbird flew to their end of the meadow and hid in a bush not far from the spot where they had built their nest on the ground.
Now, Mr. Catbird had only wanted to have a jolly time with the Bobolink family.
When she passed through the garden on her way to the meadow to hunt for mice, Mr. Catbird was quite likely to begin mewing.
After spending some minutes in that fashion Mr. Catbird peeped out of his bush again and began what he expected would be a perfect imitation of one of Bobby Bobolink's songs.
Then Mr. Catbird came out of the bush and apologized like the gentleman he was.
Now, the cat was not the only one whose calls Mr. Catbird imitated.
Mr. Catbird was always prankish and full of spirits.
A suspicious catbird dropped down on the end of a log near the silent figure and gave vent to his whining, petulant phrase.
Across the tenseness of that long, awful moment the soft trill of a catbird grated like the harsh blasphemy of a parrot.
When at last he did, and began to wash himself, he was thinking all the time how mean the Catbird was.
When they came there on their wedding trip the other birds supposed that they were only visiting, and it was not until a Catbird heard them discussing different porches that any one really believed they might come there to live.
Then he heard the Catbird laugh and saw him fly away.
Every day the Catbird came and flirted around and said, "Zeay!
The Catbird said that the Robin took in all that the Caterpillar was saying, but the other birds didn't quite understand what he meant by that.
A Catbird was already there, helping himself to the best in the tree-top, and laughing at the Lady when she tried to scare him away.
The Catbird sat there and twitched his tail until Silvertip had almost reached him.
One day he was looking out through a screen door and happened to see the Catbird mocking another bird.
There was Bobbie Bobolink, Jolly Robin, Miss Kitty Catbird and Buddy Brown-Thrasher.
And it was no wonder that Jasper's actions--as well as his words--sent Miss Kitty Catbird into a flutter of alarm.
The Catbird was not alarmed when he saw that five pairs of eyes were turned upon him.
The Robin, Thrush, andCatbird eat fruits and berries for the juicy, pulpy part.
The famous mockingbird of the Southern States belongs to a genus which has but two other representatives in the Atlantic States, namely, the catbird and the long-tailed or ferruginous thrush.
In form and manner it seems almost a duplicate of thecatbird on a small scale.
The catbird's nest, with four greenish-blue eggs, is in a wild gooseberry bush and the catbird is up among the shad-trees feasting on the ripening June berries.
Some observers say the catbird eats the eggs of the fly-catcher and other birds, but this must be seen to be believed.
This handiwork of the white-footed or deer mouse can be found in almost every field or tangle of undergrowth; the nest of a field sparrow or catbird being used as a foundation and thickly covered over and tightly thatched with leaves.
The wild raspberries on which the catbirds were feeding today would have been just as fine had there been no catbird to eat them or human eye to admire them.
A catbird with soft "quoots" assembles her family in the hazel and the wood-thrush sounds warning "quirts" as fancied peril approaches her children beneath the ripening blackberries.
And then the warbling ceased and the peculiar call of the catbird was heard.
Allen heard the catbird again and again, and by its sound guided his footsteps.
This is the angel that it is said the catbird was before he fell from grace.
It is a very charming photograph of a catbirdon its nest.
John says he feels better acquainted with the catbird than he would have been if he had read fifty books about it.
It was lucky for them that Mr. Catbird came to their rescue.
He says he agrees with Mr. Crow," Mr. Catbird explained very pleasantly.
And he gave himself a jerk and spread his tail, all of which told Reddy Woodpecker plainly that Mr. Catbird had a very poor opinion of him.
Mr. Catbird cried, as he settled himself right in front of Reddy Woodpecker.
He says he agrees with you," Mr. Catbird told Reddy Woodpecker.
The bluebird is similarly absent; the great flocks of blackbirds are gone; the bobolink is missing entirely; the thrush and the catbird have all left; the flicker and red-headed woodpecker are also spending their winter in the South.
I have seen a catbird on his way to a tree turn three somersaults, much like those performed by a tumbler pigeon, after which he alighted upon the bough.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "catbird" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
