Catbirds on the eve of their departure for the southland are feasting on the red and yellow wild plums, and the crab apples are beginning to give forth a faint fragrance which will grow more pronounced from now until October.
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.
In this part of the thicket the catbirds congregate, but over yonder the brown thrashers are calling to each other.
Catbirds and robins are among the most abundant breeders, while chickadees and white-breasted nuthatches are less often seen.
On the other hand they do not discriminate against civilization per se, and the Chats of Cannon Hill, in Spokane, are as grateful to the good sense of its citizens as are the Catbirds and two score other resident species of songsters.
But some Catbirds are among the most talented singers known.
Chapter II Catbirds and Hawk From the spot where Dave and Brand stood the ancient playhouse could not be seen.
How insignificant the catbirds had appeared, how terrifying, with curved beak and needle-like claws, the hawk.
In the fight being fought above them now he saw the battle of catbirds and hawk.
How often, during his early days on an American farm this boy, Dave Barnes, had watched a fight between two catbirds and a hawk.
I hurried downstairs, and as I appeared the jay flew, with two catbirds after him, still crying in a way I had never heard before.
In that spot "the quaintly discontinuous lays" of the catbird were in perfection; one song especially was the best I ever heard, being louder and more clear than catbirds usually sing.
The thrashers sing in the hedgerows beyond the garden, the catbirds everywhere.
Song-sparrows and catbirds sang in the shrubbery; one robin had built its nest over the front and one over the back door, and there was a chippy's nest in the wistaria vine by the stoop.
The catbirds have such an attractive song that it is extremely irritating to know that at any moment they may interrupt it to mew and squeal.
Catbirds and blue jays fluttered screaming from the thickets.
In the month of April there is hardly a clump of shrubbery in the Central Park which will not serve as a trysting-place for yellow warblers and catbirds just home from their southern tours.
When one of the catbirds came with food for its own nestlings, the robin babies would cry to be fed too.
And at night, when bird babies need to be covered up by the warm feather-bed of their mother's breast, one of the friendly catbirds filled her place, and kept them warm all night.
At night one may often see robins and catbirds before going to bed, dressing their plumage and shaking off the day's dust.
The child turned about in the man's arms, and pointed his finger toward two catbirds that were fluttering in a neighboring bush.
Catbirds (Dumetella carolinensis) and wood thrushes (Hylocichla mustelina) especially have been noted frequenting the vicinity of mulberry trees in fruit.
The catbirds built their nests in the crotches of the crabs and the jays came over from the woods across the river and quarreled with them.
In the fields one often sees the nests of robins and blackbirds built between the rails of pole fences, and sometimes catbirds choose this situation for a home.
First I hunted in all the bushes, and the Catbirds scolded me and the Brown Thrasher in the barberry bush was very mad and a Robin in the low crotch of the bell-pear tree nearly tipped his nest over, he flew away in such a hurry.
Roger, the gardener, says that Catbirds are bad things and if he had his way he would shoot them.
And when half a dozen pairs of Catbirds choose the garden for their home, you may be sure that they will furnish fun as well as music.
When bird music begins to wane, when thrushes have taken their broods afar, and orioles and catbirds are heard no more, one appreciates the hearty philosophy, the cheerful and pleasing song, of the robin.
I just took hold of that grip and carried it to the depot for her and tipped my hat to her once more.
Lambert never had heard of one stretching so wide that he was drawn out of himself entirely, his eyes fixed on the far light of a nobler life.
No publicity" is the watchword of the young catbirds as well as of the old.
A pair of catbirds have a nest in the barberry bushes at the south end of the house, and are in evidence at all hours.
My catbirds both worked overtime one afternoon at least, being on their job as late as seven o'clock.
How different from the manners of the robins are the manners of a pair of catbirds that have a nest in the honeysuckle against the side of the first-floor sleeping-porch!
This particular pair of catbirds appeared in early May and began slyly to look over the situation in the vines and bushes about the house.
The catbirds and robins and phœbe-birds that were reared far from human habitations doubtless return to such localities to rear their young.
Catbirds usually build their nests in hedges, briars, or bushes, so they are never very high from the ground.
The Catbirds in the garden are so tame that they will frequently perch on the edge of the hammock in which I am sitting, and when I move they only hop away a few feet with a little flutter.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "catbirds" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
