When there is a nestful of fledglings to feed, sticky little pellets of insects, caught on the wing, are carried to them by both parents from daylight to dusk.
It is estimated that about fourteen feet of worms (if placed end to end) are drawn out of the ground daily by a pair of robins with a nestful of babies to feed.
Such a nestful of restlessness I never saw; the constant wonder was that they managed not to fall out.
After my unsuccessful attempt to disarm the fears and suspicions of the meadow-nesting thrushes, we left the little family to its much loved solitude, and in a day or two the whole nestful departed.
At this very moment, in this very field, she is sitting on a nestful of light blue eggs.
As he idly noted the colours of red and black, he remembered with bitterness that he had raised game-cocks once when he was a boy at the Hall, and that Maria had smashed a nestful of his eggs in a fit of passion.
I rushed in to find a big blow-snake coiling just below a nestful of young birds, while the agonized parents and sympathetic neighbors hovered over the spot crying piteously.
It is my deliberate conviction that the successful rearing of a nestful of young Crows costs the lives of a hundred sea-birds.
I once had the misfortune to pitch camp in a grove of willows which contained a nestful of Crows.
How do the tiny parents contrive to cover so many eggs and to feed such a nestful of fledglings?
The male looks with wondering admiration at the housewifely activity, applauds her with song, feeds her as she sits brooding over the nestful of pale greenish-blue eggs, but his adoration of her virtues does not lead him into emulation.
When you sing, one can believe that; there is nothing prosaic in a nestful of larks.
I must have sung for a long time, to judge by the amount of work I contrived to do, and if I had sung like a whole nestful of skylarks I could not have pleased my audience more.
In the absence {110} of any nestful of eggs, she shows a peculiar restless behavior that indicates to one who knows hens that this one "wants to set.
When in this condition she responds to a nestfulof eggs, as she does not at other times, by sitting persistently on them and keeping them covered.
Why does the hen, for instance, submit herself to the tedium of incubating such a fearfully uninteresting set of objects as a nestful of eggs, unless she have some sort of prophetic inkling of the result?
I don't know but what I like it after all, although I miss you fearfully, dear nestful of robins.
And then, it happened that she thought of Elizabeth Ann Robbins, their niece, and all her nestful of young mouths to be satisfied with life's gifts and privileges.
Another occupant of this nestful tree is the sulphur-crested cockatoo, whose eggs are laid deep down in a hollow.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nestful" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
