A killdeer began to scream and flap around, and that called my attention to the watering pond beside me.
I suppose the killdeer has a nest somewhere in the field, but it doesn't matter what part of the fifteen acres Sheppy appears in the bird will come to tease him.
The last crows were straggling off to some distant swamp to roost, and a flock of killdeer ran across the road on invisible legs that made them seem to be swimming a few inches above the ground.
What impressed me was that I had never seen a killdeer act in this way before.
I have never heard birds accused of having a sense of humour, but there is a killdeer in the pasture field that seems to have glimmerings.
When giving the same corner a stroke of the disc a couple of days ago a killdeer suddenly stood up with outstretched wings and tail, about a foot from the end of the disc.
Probably sober-minded, scientific persons would say that the killdeer is simply trying to protect its young and keep the dog from approaching them, but I don't believe it.
One spring, six years ago, while my grandmother and I were out milking in the corral one evening, a pair of killdeer flew over our heads and, after circling around a few times, settled near us.
Autumn came and went, and with it the killdeer and their young.
In winter the killdeer is an unusually silent bird, in which season it is found dispersed over the cultivated fields in Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas, and other southern states, diligently searching for food.
The flesh of the killdeer is not highly regarded as a food.
Soon we heard killdeer cries from the beach, and, looking up, saw the birds, three of them, alighting on the sand.
I put up my glass and said to myself, "A killdeer plover!
On getting home we had no difficulty in determining their identity, and each at once sent off to the other the same verdict,--"killdeer plover.
Unlike these more aristocratic members of the Plover group, the Killdeer does not retire to semi-arctic fastnesses to rear its brood, but nests wherever found throughout the eastern United States.
The Killdeer Plover, perhaps from his close kinship to the fraternity of game birds, has come to regard man and all human devices with deep suspicion, and to get on terms of close fellowship with him is no easy matter.
He was not at all sorry, therefore, when he found the surly looking Major Killdeer wholly unsupported in his sweeping estimate of what he called the "spy act.
The killdeer has several other congeners in America, among which may be noticed Ae.
The killdeer is probably the best known of the shorebirds, perhaps because of its contrasting colors and startling cry.
With a busy company of friends, thekilldeer haunts broad tracts of grassy land, near water-uplands or lowlands, or marshy meadows beside the sea.
No sportsman worthy the name would waste shot on a bird not larger than a robin; one, moreover, with musky flesh; yet I have seen scores of killdeer strung over the backs of gunners in tide-water Virginia.
The killdeeris not forgotten, nor the burrowing owl, whose home is in the higher knolls; but over all and above all and through all comes the clamor of the black-necked stilt and the American avocet.
It accompanied Sully’s Indian expedition to the upper Missouri in 1864, and took part in the battle of Killdeer Mountain.
On July 28 the considerable battle of Killdeer Mountain on the Little Missouri River took place.
If Mabel could fancy a man for that, I might have no great reason to despair; and yet, Sergeant, I sometimes think that it is all as much owing to Killdeer as to any skill of my own.
If I thought she did, Sergeant, though not much given to showy and parade evolutions, I would shoulder Killdeer and quit the garrison before her pretty eyes had time to frown.
The Iroquois on the opposite shore was in the act of aiming when the fatal messenger from Killdeer arrived.
I cleaned and brightened up Killdeer this morning as soon as the sun rose; and, in my judgment, the piece never looked better than it does at this very moment.
Ask any of the 60th, and they can tell you what Killdeer can do, and has done, and that, too, when the bullets were flying about our heads like hailstones.
I will not vaunt, Jasper; but it is well known on all this frontier that Killdeer seldom fails.
It must be a pressing errand that brings you under the loops of a blockhouse at this hour of the night, with the sartainty of Killdeer being inside of it.
One life is sufficient for our present wants; and there may yet be occasion to use Killdeer in behalf of the Sarpent, who has done an untimorsome thing to let them rampant devils so plainly know that he is in their neighborhood.
Killdeer is taking its rest, Quartermaster," returned Pathfinder calmly, "and no one here thinks of disturbing it.
It is singular that no one speaks; no one returns the fire from the boats; and I have left Killdeer in the block!
It would have been hard swimming of a sartainty, with a long-barrelled rifle in the hand; and what between the game, and the savages and the French, Killdeer and I have gone through too much in company to part very easily.
Killdeer seldom fails me, it is true; but the Oswego makes a distant mark, and that miscreant showed little more than his head and shoulders above the bushes, and an onpractysed hand and eye might have failed.
Everybody knows that Killdeer seldom misses; and ought we to make a trial of this sort when we all know what must be the result?
Two species of shorebirds, the killdeer and upland plover, still further befriend cattle by devouring the North American fever tick.
Killdeer cried for slaughter, in plaintive tones, as their white breasts gleamed silver-like across the sky.
But the killdeer on invisible legs, circling the lake shore, replied instantly; so did the lark soaring above, and the dove of the elm thicket close beside.
A killdeer sweeping the lake close two o'clock one morning awakened him.
Killdeer were glorying in the moonlight and night flight, and cried in pure, clear notes as they sailed over the water.
Hist may be, and should be precious to you, but Killdeer will have the love and veneration of your whole people.
You shall bring out your own rifle, and I will just sight Killdeer in a careless way, in order that we may know a few of its secret vartues.
This wasKilldeer which, even as he looked boldly and in defiance at the crowd around him, he suffered to fall back into the hands of its proper owner.
I have had hopes that Judith might consait the idee of giving Killdeer to me.
Now, I should like to leave Killdeer to the Sarpent, should any thing happen to keep me from doing credit and honor to your precious gift, Judith.
That is a serious question for our thoughts to rest on, and should that happen which is so likely to happen, Killdeerwould be without an owner.
He was not at all sorry, therefore, when he found the surly-looking Major Killdeer wholly unsupported in his sweeping estimate of what he called the "spy act.
Here I was met by the fifth deceiver, a killdeer plover.
I know of no other instance of protective coloring among the birds so nearly perfect, unless it be the killdeer herself when playing her favorite trick of "invisible.
The killdeer always builds in a worn-out, pebbly pasture or in a bare, unused field.
He screamed a "Chip" of such savage jealousy at a pair of killdeer lovers that he sent them scampering down the river bank without knowing that the crime of which they stood convicted was that of being mated when he was not.
He drove a stake to mark the spot where the killdeer hen brooded in the corn field, so that he would not drive Nancy over the nest.
Hiking is a favorite sport the year round, and is the only way many interesting but otherwise inaccessible spots in the Badlands, the Turtle and Killdeer Mountains, and in the many State parks can be reached.
Native forests are found chiefly along streams and lakes, and in the Turtle and Killdeer Mountains.
The Killdeer Mountains at the northern end of the route present some of the most charming scenery in North Dakota.
From the cliff top here the buildings of the Diamond C Ranch and the site of the Battle of Killdeer Mountains (see above) are visible to the S.
The White River formation is particularly rich in fossil remains ranging from fish and turtles to huge prehistoric mammals, although no specimens have been taken from the Killdeer Mountains.
After Fort Rice had been established a scouting detachment was sent after the evasive red men, and soon reported Sioux near Killdeer Mountain.
All along, the killdeer were darting about, calling loudly and piercingly.
Across the fields the killdeer were flying, and calling in their shrill, clear notes, which always seem to breathe of the sea.
Rode to Killdeer Mountains to arrange for a wagon which I hired.
Dow returned to Sewall and the thieves, while Roosevelt rode fifteen miles to a ranch at the edge of the Killdeer Mountains.
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