Overall, the prelaying period is longer for burrow nesters than for those using crevices (Sealy 1973a).
These factors help explain why early arriving species are not necessarily early nesters (Fig.
I also suspect that the brown bear (Ursa arctos) is another possible contributing factor to population declines of burrow nesters along this coast.
They also destroy ground-nesters, and cliff-nesters may not be altogether safe from them.
The brand owners who haven't hedged theirselves beforehand will run down to file and find that nesters have had papers on all the good pieces right in their dooryard for months.
The nesters streamed westward on all the trails, filing their rights on the fertile valleys and pushing those who would be cattle barons undisputed back into the more arid regions.
Don't you know the nesters will flock in here and cut the range all up as soon as they see a chance?
Since you've started this deal there's been nesters filed papers on every good site in my range, waiting to rush in as soon as I lose my grip.
If the news should be spread that he was locked up these nesters would rush in.
Harris moved once more--and then again--and it was something over two decades after his departure from Dodge with the Three Bar cows that he made one final shift, faring on in search of that land where nesters were unknown.
I'm going to fight these nesters off--the Three Bar among the rest if you don't quit.
I've got to say for Hawkins that aside from stealing cattle off the nesters and helping make evidence against some that's in jail, Hawkins never done any dirty work.
They would take her to the asylum; she felt that the Sawtooth had the power, that she had played directly into their hands, and that they would be as ruthless in dealing with her as they had been with the nesters whom they had killed.
Except the cedar wax wings, the goldfinches are the latest nesters of all our birds.
The relationship of secondary cavity nestersto snag densities in western coniferous forests.
In a Montana study, for example, larch and paper birch snags were most frequently used by cavity-nesters (McClelland and Frissell 1975).
On an adjacent plot, where live trees were harvested but snags were left standing, cavity-nesters increased as they did on a plot where live trees and snags were undisturbed.
Weeks ago the first migrants started on their southward journey, the more delicate insect-eaters going first, before the goldfinches and other late nesters had half finished housekeeping.
Many nesters have come to the country to take up farms, and to these Hetty appears as a saving angel, however hostile their arrival has been to her husband's interests.
Lafe told her glibly that he had been sent by Mr. Horne to recover certain cattle which had been run off by hostile nesters during the festivities.
In nearly all the draws of this region nesters had settled, for one could grow corn and alfalfa in abundance, and some had laid out small peach orchards.
And seeing our land runs straight through from Meeker's line fence to yours, we kinda think we've got the nesters pretty well corralled.
As a matter of fact, old man Whitmore is pretty sore at us fellows right now, because we quit him and turned nesters right under his nose.
The nesters are shipping in more stock--I heard in town that they're bringing in all they can rustle, thinkin' the stock will pay big money while the claims are getting ready to produce.
A few of the nesters who had horses and could ride them hunted also.
Nesters he did not consider friends because they were not friends with his bunch.
As it is, we'll all turn nesters for the good of the cause!
For the rest of that afternoon the boys of the Flying U fought side by side with hated nesters and told the inexperienced how best to fight.
Gee, it's lucky this bunch has gone along turning up their noses at nesters and thinkin' they couldn't be real punchers and hold down claims too.
And there's their claims--fellers squatting down on every eighty--four different nesters fer every doggoned one of the bunch to handle!
He told Rusty this, and he accused him of standing in with the nesters and turning down the men who had helped him make money' all these years.
On and on he rode, keeping wherever possible to the higher levels to avoid the fences of the nesters whose fields and pastures followed the windings of the creek bottoms.
But ol' Lazy Y Freeman paid the freight, an' he thinks about as much of the nesters as what he does of a rattlesnake.
The fences of the nesters were left far behind and following old game trails, or no trails at all, the Texan pushed unhesitatingly forward.
Nesters in the hills here are making money by rustling Twin Star calves.
If that's the case we'll serve notice on the nesters to get out," Healy replied.
I reckon the others must be nestersfrom Bear Creek, too.
But they would have found water and it would have taken say three years for them to discover that their claims could not support them, Nesters are a dogged breed of human.
It takes a nester a long time to wake up to the fact that he's licked, and until they woke up, the nesterswould be liable to block the water wheels of a private reclamation scheme.
He sat grinding his bridle-reins in his gloved hand, as if he had the bones of the nesters in his palm at last.
It looks like a body's got to fight night and day for his rights now, since them nestersbegun to come in here.
These nesters drew courage from Macdonald's example, and cunning from his counsel, and stood against the warnings, persecutions, and attempts at forceful dislodgment.
Mrs. Chadron laid a hand on her hair in motherly caress, moved by a tenderness quite foreign to the vindictive creed which she had pronounced against the nesters but a little while before.
I brought you up here to throw these nesters off of our land.
It was only thirty feet to water, and the nesters were settling everywhere.
It was as if the Old West rose up before him, blotting out the barbed-wire fences and the lonely homes of the nesters and bringing back the age of romance that he sought.
The birds'-nesters had spoken: their story seemed to be possibly connected with Clubin's disappearance, if instead of ghosts they supposed smugglers.
Wherever there are cliffs and cleft-rocks overhanging the sea, the young birds'-nesters abound.
The birds'-nesters advanced by slow steps, the French boy at their head, and looking towards the house.
Having climbed the grassy hill, the three birds'-nesters reached the tableland on which was situate the haunted house.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nesters" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
