The crows andchoughs that wing the midway air Show scarce so gross as beetles: half-way down Hangs one that gathers Samphire--dreadful trade!
The blueness of the sea and the hills from Carrantuohill to the Skelligs, the singular loneliness of the hillside I was on, with a few choughs and gulls in sight only, had a splendour that was almost a grief in the mind.
Looking down the drop of five or six hundred feet, the height is so great that the gannets flying close over the sea look like white butterflies, and the choughs like flies fluttering behind them.
As I lie there I can watch whole flights of cormorants and choughs and seagulls that fly about under the cliffs, and beyond them a number of niavogues that are nearly always fishing in Ferriter's Cove.
Even at daybreak it ran high over the legs of the choughs walking on the beach below--that is why the choughs go red-legged to this day.
Of bird-life there was no sign beyond choughs and a soaring eagle that our guides called aguila pintada (Aquila bonellii, immature).
It is only forty yards square, and while we rested, lunching, on unaccustomed level a golden eagle swept overhead, chased and hustled by a mob of choughs that colonise these crags.
The only birds seen were choughs and ravens; ring-ouzels lower down.
The only birds seen in the high sierra were choughsand ravens: ring-ouzels a little lower down.
These caverns were also occupied by Choughs and Rock-Martins (Cotyle rupestris), the latter sharing a cave with hundreds of bats.
Ravens and choughstenanted the crags, and the red-legs were met with very high up.
Augurs and understood relations have, By magot-pies and choughs and rooks brought forth The secret'st man of blood.
Stones have been known to move and trees to speak; Augures and understood relations have By maggot pies and choughs and rooks brought forth The secret'st man of blood.
The crows and choughs that wing the midway air Show scarce so gross as beetles.
Instances, we believe, are on record of choughs being taught to speak, but Shakespeare appears to have entertained no great opinion of their talking powers.
Here the first-mentioned choughswere in all probability jackdaws.
Drysdale, with whom Tom had been on good terms, noted the difference, and advised him "to cut the Choughs business.
His visits to theChoughs became shorter; he never stayed behind now after the other men, and avoided interviews with Patty alone as diligently as he had sought them before.
All the same, Tom could not follow Drysdale's advice at once and break off his visits to the Choughs altogether.
The choughs not being migratory birds, and sticking much to the same localities, those who desire to obtain their eggs or rob the nests of the young know exactly which are their haunts year by year.
Crows and choughs flew screaming over the old trees, and there were crowds of birds; they did not seem to get fewer when any one shot among them, but seemed rather to increase.
According to the late Mr. Ussher, Choughs will attack both Hooded Crows and Ravens.
The choughs are persistent followers of a Ski-ing party, flying over one's head and chirruping for lunch.
These "packed lunches" are usually so plentiful that the choughs and the ravens get a goodly feed.
I did want to know, and I found out that they were Alpine choughs and I still want to know when I see the inhabitants of the mountains or their tracks.
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