All day long, save when a brown pair Of hawksfrom the wood float with wide wings Strained to a bell: 'gainst noonday glare You count the streaks and rings.
Young hawks taken in flying are called passage hawks, and the training of these is called reclaiming.
Over the bird's head was drawn a gay-colored hood adorned with tiny bells and tassels--John had read how hawks were dressed in medieval times, and had made the hood himself.
And if hawks or any such birds tried to snap up the little ones who had left their mother's wing to take a peep at the world, the buzzard would instantly fly to their help, and never once was beaten in the battle.
Thus he told me one day, the sparrow-hawks are easily influenced by the spirits, and he uses them as the hypnotist makes use of somnambulism, as the spiritist makes use of tables and slates.
The hawks pursued him, sailing round in circles higher and higher.
Then he took the reins and walked by the pony's head, while Hugh followed, with two hooded hawks upon his arm.
The heron was killed by the fall; and to Rupert's grief; one of his hawks was also dead, pierced through and through by the heron's beak.
Seeing his danger, the heron turned on his back, and, with feet and beak pointed upwards to protect himself, fell almost like a stone towards the earth; but more quickly still the hawks darted down upon him.
At last the hawks got above the heron, and instantly prepared to pounce upon him.
He reduced the turbulent people of Wales, and obliged them to pay him a tribute in money, and in cattle, and to send him their best hawks and hounds.
Hawks pounced upon the chickens, and crows and blackbirds pulled the corn.
Hawks and crows that were left, looked so wistful and lonely they were not begrudged the little they ventured at times to take.
Be the hawks where they will, methinks the walls of the Preceptory of Templestowe will be cover sufficient, and thither will I, like heron to her haunt.
From hence, the brigands, likehawks in their nests, keep on the watch for such travellers as are likely to afford either booty or ransom.
Low down above the waters wheeled white gulls, and higher up the hawks and ospreys of the cliff sailed out of sunlight into shadow.
From the church it is delightful to escape into the cloisters, flooded with sunlight, where the swallows skim and the brown hawks circle and the mason-bees are at work upon their cells among the carvings.
But hawks and owls avoid a spot like this, that men have cleared.
Though the young are kept from harm anywhere by the cunning instinct which builds a hanging nest, she still prefers to build near the house, wherehawks and crows and owls rarely come.
Occasionally, therefore, he neglects to build a deep nest, simply hollowing out an old knot-hole, and depending on the presence of man for protection from hawks and owls.
Sometimes the hawks try to catch him, but it takes a very quick and a very small pair of wings to follow Chickadee.
The next morning I found that the man who brought the hawks had not departed.
The lesser birds are the happier that there are fewer hawks and crows.
There, with cruel hawks and owls, and serpents, and beasts of prey, a bird's life is one long terror.
Wall and Jackey shot fourteen or fifteen of them, in the presence of the natives, who retired to the edge of the scrub, and seemed very much surprised to see the hawks fall as soon as they heard the report of the guns.
While they were looking at us, a great many brown hawks came hovering over the camp.
Some hawks and owls bolt their prey whole, and after an interval of from twelve to twenty hours, disgorge pellets, which, as I know from experiments made in the Zoological Gardens, include seeds capable of germination.
A bird in this interval might easily be blown to the distance of 500 miles, and hawks are known to look out for tired birds, and the contents of their torn crops might thus readily get scattered.
Mr. Brent informs me that a friend of his had to give up flying carrier-pigeons from France to England, as the hawks on the English coast destroyed so many on their arrival.
A solitary pole for trapping hawks stands on the sloping ground outside the cover.
Hawks regularly beat along the furze, darting on a finch now and then, and owls pass by at night.
Hawks and others referred to in the text, edited by E.
Hawks was a native of North Carolina, and personally familiar with its coast, and thus enabled to fix the localities mentioned in the early voyages.
Other fac-similes of the original are given in the Histories of North Carolina by Hawks and Wheeler, in Gay’s Popular History of the United States, i.
In the last age every yRoman almost kept a sparrow-hawk; and it was a divertisement for young gentlewomen to manage sparrow-hawks and merlins.
The meeting of the gentry was not then at tipling- houses, but in the fields or forest, with their hawks and hounds, with their bugle horns in silken bordries.
In the early delineations, the nobility are frequently represented seated at table, with their hawks upon their heads.
The king's hawks were kept at this place as early as the year 1377, an.
A cast of hawks of toure, says an old book on hawking, signifies two, and a lese three.
The unharming sharks, they glided by as if with padlocks on their mouths; the savage sea-hawks sailed with sheathed beaks.
They had made their beds under the tree in which the Hawks had their nest.
Then the Kingfisher and the Turtle came up, and the Hawks said: "You have saved us.
Then the Turtle went to the island where the Hawks lived.
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