It is a different matter if, out of a family of six, one takes two to bring up by hand--the labour of the old birds is lightened, and four fledglings will sufficiently reward their toil.
Most fledglings are much the same at first; whenever I came in sight the gaping beak was ever ready for food, and the capacity for receiving it was wonderful.
But in reality their will is His will--they fly, and they are driven, like fledglings from the mother-nest.
In blossoming lindens Doves fondly rear Their tender fledglings From year to year.
Sounds of melody echo from sunlit bowers, where birds of song flit on airy wings, and the gentle cries of fledglings arouse the maternal instincts to greater exertion.
And woe be to the fledglingswhom fate has associated with a young cow-bird!
And 'twixt the winrows most demurely drops, 130 A decorous bird of business, who provides For his brown mate and fledglings six besides, And looks from right to left, a farmer mid his crops.
The oriole's fledglings fifty times Have flown from our familiar elms; As many poets with their rhymes Oblivion's darkling dust o'erwhelms.
The nest requires a structure round it like a cage, so that the fledglings might be prevented from leaving it till better able to save themselves.
Though not altogether, in part their vast numbers appear due to the fact that their fledglings escape decimation.
Fern and flower and fledglings had come again as they have come every year since the oldest of these ancient shafts was erected, for life is older, life is greyer, than the weather-beaten mouldings.
I think that house-martin fledglings and eggs are capable of enduring the utmost heat of our English summer, and the nests found deserted were abandoned for some other reason.
From May to August, it is gorged with the fledglings of the nest.
But shall we be content with this state of things when any bright child can be given the necessary instruction in an hour by which he can succeed in keeping alive and taming practically all the fledglings that fall in his way?
I am aware some will say that this will lead to the death of more fledglings than now go to feed the cats.
Sing to yourfledglings again, Mother, oh lift up your head!
You know when the mother has other eggs to take her attention, she gives the fledglings into the care of the father bird, and it isn't very long before he pushes them out to shift for themselves.
He hovered anxiously about while she fed the greedy fledglings with the soft pulpy mass she prepared so carefully, and was always ready to look after the "bambini," as Maria insisted on calling the baby birds.
She had suffered beneath this treatment, and was delighted that these fledglings should now see in what estimation she was held by a scholar of repute.
He at first thought that the fledglings had been devoured, but he soon saw the parents, only about thirty yards off, with food in their beaks.
The ants climb trees to a great height, much higher than most birds' nests, and at once kill and tear to pieces any fledglings in the nests they reach.
The parent bird its brood protects As fledglings in their downy nest, Until a Power their flight directs From trial trips to distant quest, Through trackless zones of ether blue, For bird companions strange and new.
For Summer's fingers all the land have richly dressed, Resplendent in regalia of scent and bloom, And stirred in every heart the spirit of unrest, Like that of untamed fledglings in the parent nest For ampler room.
On a branch there was a nest, from which fledglings peeped out.
The mother griffin flew down, and her fledglingstold her what had happened.
She thought Ghvthisavari her enemy, and was about to seize him, but her fledglings cried out that he had killed the bird that would have drunk their blood, and had saved them.
They also prey on mice and small reptiles, and carry off the fledglings from the nests of Sparrows and other small birds, and in spring they are frequently seen following the plough to pick up worms.
The explanation of the Chimango's success is to be found in the loquacious habit of the fledglingsit preys on, a habit common in the young of Dendrocolaptine species.
As one of the prophets puts the same idea, 'I taught Ephraim to go,' where the figure of the parent bird training its callow fledglings for flight is exchanged for that of the nurse teaching a child to walk.
The girl sat down, and with the greatest caution drew from her skirt a blackbird's nest in which three wee fledglings were slumbering.
Another clod, however, more skilfully thrown upset the frail cradle, and precipitated the fledglings into the torrent below.
The chimney swallows leave us early, for example, apparently so soon as their latest fledglings are firm enough of wing to attempt the long rowing-match that is before them.
Only when his nest or his fledglings are approached does he become noisy and almost aggressive.
Best information concerning kinds of prey utilized was obtained soon after the fledglings had left the nest; on various occasions these still clumsy young dropped nearly intact insects that were delivered to them by the adults.
A group of four fledglings were observed concentrating their activities at a nest more than 200 feet from any other known nests; possibly all belonged to the same brood, but this was not definitely determined.
When fledglings are able to fly and have left the nest, the adults generally pass food to them directly, rather than dropping the regurgitated mass, which might fall to the ground and be lost.
However, it is my impression that the fledglingswere from one-third to one-fourth as numerous as the adults.
The following list includes both the prey found beneath perches of fledglings and that identified from pellets, the latter mostly from adult kites.
Fledglings call frequently while waiting to be fed, but as an adult approaches with food, the calls are given in rapid succession and slurred to a high thin squablike squeaking or squealing.
The fledglings tended to remain in the nest tree, or to make relatively short flights near it, while the adults occupied with catching of prey for themselves and their young, spent much of their time aloft.
When the young fledglings fall out of the nest on to the ground they run great risk from snakes.
Though but barely hatched, and chips of shell clinging to their backs, the tiny fledglings swim at once if alarmed.
Fledglings will develop contentedly in a cage, and become tame and amusing pets.
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