Resembles the Kingbirdbut is lighter gray, and the tail lacks the conspicuous white tip.
With increasing numbers, as the Mayflowers appear, come the crow-chasing kingbird and his twin-named fish-catcher.
His character, too, is better, for he is neither as belligerent as the kingbird or as gloomy as the Acadian and wood pewee.
What figure is more familiar on hot summer days than the kingbird or tyrant flycatcher perched on a mullein stalk, now and then darting down from his perch to capture some straying gnat?
The Kingbird swooped toward him and alighted on his back.
The next moment the two birds, the Kingbird on the Woodpecker's back, went racing across the meadow like a streak of zigzag lightning, making a clatter that frightened every echo from its hiding place.
I know both the kingbird and the wood pewee sing, not, to be sure, in a way to be compared to the thrushes, though far excelling the utterances of the warblers.
This indifference did not please the olive-sided, but he alighted on a branch below and bided his time; it came soon, when the goldenwing took flight, and he came down upon him like a kingbird on a crow.
The kingbird is the best dressed member of the family, but he is a braggart; and, though always snubbing his neighbors, is an arrant coward, and shows the white feather at the slightest display of pluck in his antagonist.
The kingbird builds a nest altogether admirable, using various soft cotton and woolen substances, and sparing neither time nor material to make it substantial and warm.
A kingbird chattered and shrieked overhead, the grasshoppers buzzed in the grasses, strange insects with ventriloquistic voices sang all about her--she could not tell where.
Bees were humming around the clover in the grass, and the kingbird chattered ceaselessly from the Lombardy poplar tip.
Like most of its kin, the Kingbird is not gifted with a fine voice.
A kingbird doesn't like the scolding catbird for a neighbour, or the teasing blue jay, or the meddlesome English sparrow, but he simply gives them a wide berth.
Just such an extended branch as a shrike or a kingbird would use as a lookout while searching the landscape o'er for something to eat, the little sparrow hawk chooses for the same purpose.
But the Kingbird is not quarrelsome--simply very lively; he is the very picture of dash and daring in defending his home, and when he is teaching his youngsters how to fly.
The Kingbird is proud of his nest, which he often confides to a maple on the edge of a garden, or to your pet pear tree.
The Kingbird Length eight inches--about the size of a Wood Thrush.
We often saw him diving on them, pecking them about the head and driving them away as bravely as the kingbird drives away hawks.
We asked him one day if there was any bird in America that the kingbird couldn't whip.
Our birds have their tilts and spats also; but the only really quarrelsome members in our family are confined to the flycatchers, as the kingbird and the great crested flycatcher.
The kingbird seldom more than dogs the hawk, keeping above and between his wings, and making a great ado; but my correspondent says he once "saw a kingbird riding on a hawk's back.
As I walked upon the grand terrace I saw the robin and kingbird and song sparrow, and there in the tree, by the Wolfe Monument, our summer warbler was at home.
The kingbirdwill worry the hawk as a whiffet dog will worry a bear.
The wild lettuce yields down for the hummingbird's nest, and the flowers of whiteweed are used by the kingbird and cedar-bird.
Virgil also accuses the titmouse and the woodpecker of preying upon the bees, and our kingbird has been charged with the like crime, but the latter devours only the drones.
I heard the song sparrow and the kingbird also, like watchers calling the hour, and several times I heard the cuckoo.
A kingbird gave chase, and disappeared for some moments in the gulf between the great wings of the eagle, and I imagined him seated upon his back delivering his puny blows upon the royal bird.
When a kingbird has been tamed and kept in a house, he has been found to be a very knowing fellow.
Let me tell you a little story of a kingbird which I can assure you is true, for a gentleman whose word may be relied upon saw it near enough to be perfectly sure of the facts.
In this way I have found out that the kingbird is one of the most peaceable of birds.
It has been said that thekingbird is annoying to other birds, and he is called a tyrant.
All at once a kingbird flew at him so fiercely that he had to drop the young one to defend himself.
Among the head feathers of the kingbirdis a small spot of orange color.
The crow he seems to consider his enemy, and often flies after him, but excepting that, I have never seen a kingbird disturb any bird who was minding his own business.
The kingbird sits higher than the honey bee flies, and the drones are the ones that come near him.
Another insect that the kingbird is fond of is the robber fly, which destroys hundreds of honey bees.
English sparrow, a bird that the martin, courageous as a kingbird in attacking crows and hawks, tolerates as a neighbor only when it must.
If the pugnacious propensity of the kingbird is the occasion of its royal name, he cannot be said to deserve it from any fine or noble qualities he possesses.
The kingbird is preeminently a bird of the garden and orchard.
Occasionally, when the little victim shows pluck and faces his assailant, the kingbirdwill literally turn tail and show the white feather.
The kingbird feeds on beetles, canker-worms, and winged insects, with an occasional dessert of berries.
The kingbird seldom more than dogs the hawk, keeping above and between his wings and making a great ado; but my correspondent says he once "saw a kingbird riding on a hawk's back.
Many of our birds use hair in their nests, and thekingbird and cedar-bird like wool.
The sight of a Shrike will make a Kingbird shrink into the smallest possible compass, while Catbirds, too, are said to be, for valid reasons, quite exempt from molestation.
In eastern Washington this Kingbirdis common and well distributed, tho far less abundant than the larger, grayer "Western.
The Western Kingbirdis preeminently a social creature.
Both in the taking of food and in the discharge of police duties the Kingbird exhibits great strength and swiftness, as well as grace in flight.
The nest of theKingbird sometimes presents that studied disarray which is considered the height of art.
The food of theKingbird consists entirely of insects, caught on the wing for the most part, by sallies from some favorite perch.
The kingbird is preA"minently a bird of the garden and orchard.
Bees were humming around the clover in the grass, and the kingbird chattered ceaselessly from the Lombardy poplar-tip.
The bees and flies buzzing in the sun, the jay and kingbird in the poplars, the smell of strawberries, the motion of lush grass, the shimmer of corn blades tossed gayly as banners in a conquering army.
A kingbird chattered and shrieked overhead, the grasshoppers buzzed in the grasses, strange insects with ventriloquistic voices sang all about her,--she could not tell where.
He and his wife were driving along a country road, when their attention was directed to a kingbird in hot pursuit of a red-headed woodpecker, which had evidently been poaching on the first-named bird's preserves.
I once saw a kingbird doing the same thing, and so it may be a fashion in flycatcher circles.
The wood pewee and the kingbird succeed, I think, in driving him away; but the vireos and warblers, being so much smaller, suffer greatly from his depredations.
Don't you see that Kingbird over there with his eye on Mr. Jay!
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