They have told the linnets and thrushes of our hospitality, and the linnets actually come, though with dread and trembling; and they carry off the largest crumbs for their families and neighbors.
When the linnets come--they are linnets of high degree--you can make your way home.
In its wild state the linnets are spread throughout Europe.
In the autumn, by fastening snares or lime twigs to the stalks of lettuces, of the seeds of which the linnetsare very fond, several may be taken.
When linnets are allowed to run about, they will feed with the other birds on the common universal paste; but they must be given green vegetables, water, and sand, as they are very fond of bathing and dusting themselves.
I have myself taken linnets whose foreheads and breasts have been bright reddish yellow instead of blood red, a colour, in fact, that sometimes, in the house, becomes blood red.
Somewhere, by the same secret process by which the field matures a million more seeds than it needs, it is maturing red-hooded linnets for their devouring.
In September young linnets grow out of the rabbit-brush in the night.
Finches undulating through the air, shooting themselves with closed wings, and linnets happy with their young.
There are linnets somewhere, but I cannot from the old apple tree fix their exact place.
Illustration: These tiny linnets at work in the delicate birch-boughs.
These fields are the special favourites of the Linnets and Goldfinches; the Linnets are in great abundance, the latter, since the Wild Birds’ Act came into operation, by no means uncommon in autumn.
It is one of the prettiest sights that our whole calendar of bird-life affords, to watch these tiny linnets at work in the delicate birch-boughs.
He is about the size of a field mouse, and often made us think of linnets and song sparrows as he frisked about gathering nuts and berries.
Occasionally I have seen from my study-window red-headed linnets bathing in dew when water elsewhere was scarce.
Young linnets also begin to sing before losing their youthful plumage, learn to sing well during the moulting season, and often continue to warble right on into the winter; in a mild winter young linnets will sing just as well as old ones.
The linnets ceased not their lays, though her garment touched the broom-stalk on which they sang.
The linnets were already twittering in the bushes, and many larks were high in the sky, singing to greet another dawn.
Rise, sons of harmony, and hail the morn, While warbling larks on russet pinions float: Or seek at noon the woodland scene remote, Where the greylinnets carol from the hill.
The Brown Linnets but seldom leave their progeny, and will continue to feed them long after they have been placed in a cage.
In the Canary Islands we have seen linnetsor gold-finches employed for this purpose with success.
Quarrelling or strife are unknown among them, they even associate as peaceably with Linnets and Field Sparrows as they do with their own species.
The tiles of this roof were laid on bundles of tule reeds, in which the linnets delighted to build their nests.
Their notes fell on Ramona's sleeping ear, like the familiar sound of the linnets in the veranda-thatch at home, and waked her instantly.
As the volume of melody swelled, the canaries waked, and the finches and the linnets in the veranda roof.
The linnets were all nesting, and the finches and the canaries too; and the Senora spent hours, every day, tirelessly feeding the mothers.
The sun was up, and the canaries, finches, and linnetshad made the veranda ring with joyous racket, before Felipe opened his eyes.
She could not quite fancy life without a veranda, and linnets in the thatch.
Then some linnets that were hiding in the trammon began to twitter, and what was said next Michael Sunlocks did not catch, but only heard the voice that answered old Chalse, and that seemed to make the music of the birds sound harsh.
Happy little girls in bright new gowns, with primroses on their breasts yellowing their round chins, went skipping in at the wide west doorway, chattering as they went like linnets in spring.
Jean turned angrily from the window to a cage of half-a-dozen linnets the fellow had brought him an hour or two before, and to his mother's rage and astonishment, seemed about to wreak his fury upon the birds.
Springtime had come, and Cecil and his tutor were sitting in their study, looking out at the linnets flitting about the garden, and at the primroses and blue violets which grew in front of the windows.
The call of insects and the twitter of linnets seemed to deepen into a roar.
There was a little silence, broken only by the mad twitter of nesting linnets in the passion-vine overhead.
The Turtle's moan is heard in ev'ry grove; The pastures change, the warbling linnets sing.
Linnets offer themselves to our notice in the evenings of autumn and winter more than at any other time.
In winter, Mountain Linnets assemble in very large flocks, and in their habits resemble Common Linnets, from which they are best distinguished (at a distance) by their longer tails.
Bud did not seem to be troubled at all, but lay rocking in her blue cradle and laughing at the young linnets who peeped curiously over the edge of it.
A lad on the place told me that a wren had a nest in it, and added that he had seen a fight between the wren and a pair of linnets who seemed to be trying to steal her material.
But what with horses grazing under her windows and linnets making free with her nest, the poor wren was unsettled in her mind.
Besides all the rest, rosy linnets and blue lazuli buntings made the old tree ring with their musical roundelays.
Unless the old wrens had been dead, could the linnets have gotten possession?
If they had been dead when the linnets came to build, how could the birds have chosen such a sepulchre for a building site?
The linnets are ardent little wooers, singing and dancing before the indifferent birds they would win for their mates.
When the pair had gone again, two linnets came along.
The first time I went to the wine shed both wrens and linnets were there, but nothing happened and I forgot about the original quarrel.
Whilst larks and linnets sing so sweet, To cheer each lovely swain; Let each prove true unto their love, And so farewell the plain.
Not that I should bear any ill-will to the farmer, but it is said that the diminution of waste land, with its abundance of gorse and thistles, has led to a great diminution in the number of linnets and goldfinches.
The farmer, perhaps, can do without linnets and goldfinches, but we who make our living in other ways cannot.
But who will take charge of your nest of linnets in the meantime?
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