Their nests are far away upon the blue peaks; but they pass much of their time in catching fish, and in stealing from back- yards.
Some brutes who had observed the habits of swallows to make their nests in Japanese houses, last year offered to purchase some thousands of swallow-skins at a tempting price.
Eagles, fish-hawks, and ospreys soar above the forest, building their nests upon the summits of the crags and pinnacles in the wildest and most inaccessible places.
Bears also dig up the nests of yellow-jackets for the larvae they contain; and we came upon a nest so lately rifled that many of its former occupants were still buzzing angrily about.
This Flycatcher builds one of the most artistic nests created by feathered creatures.
They build theirnests on horizontal limbs of trees at any height from the ground, but usually more than six feet.
It builds its nest generally in a tuft of grass, the nests also being of grass.
Their nests are made of weeds, shreds of bark, grasses, etc.
They nest in colonies in marshes and swamps, building their nestslike those of the Purple Gallinule.
The nestsare made of grass and seaweed and lined with down; they are placed on the ground in clumps of grass or beneath overhanging stones.
The nests and eggs of this similar bird do not differ from those of the last.
This is a very common resident species in the Lower Rio Grande Valley in Texas, where it nests in trees or telegraph poles, sometimes so numerously in the latter situations as to become a nuisance.
The nests are made interiorly with plant down, but the outside is generally grayish colored shreds and lichens.
The nests are made of weeds, mosses, fibres and wool, and are quite flat.
Their nests are platforms of sticks, which, being used year after year and constantly added to, become of enormous proportions.
This sub-species is abundant throughout its range where it nests near or on the ground, in or under bushes and generally concealed from view.
Their nests are made under tangled growths of underbrush or briers.
Early in June their nests are built on remote islands in Bering Sea.
They are said to be quite abundant in the table lands of central Mexico and in southern Arizona, where they build their nests in deserted Woodpeckers' holes, perhaps most frequently in the giant cactus.
Sometimes I'm afraid; it seems as if I had no right to it.
Really, sir, how can you encourage him in such impudence?
It was a pleasant voice; George Bethune looked up well-disposed towards the stranger, whoever he might be.
She was playing draughts with her grandfather, in a perfunctory sort of way.
I am glad I was mistaken about the actress; but take care; don't get into scrapes.
When at length the ladies had gone upstairs, Lord Musselburgh came and took the seat just vacated by Mrs. Ellison.
Really, aunt, you surprise me: you will be saying next you never heard of Bo.
Hugh Ainslie is no more with us; but his countrymen, whether in America or at home, are not likely to forget the 'Bourocks o' Bargeny.
For at this moment the door opened: a tall woman appeared--with astonishment and indignation only too legible in her angular features.
Go to; thou art Didymus, and an unbeliever; I suspect Lord Musselburgh has been corrupting you.
They look upon them as one of their most delicate articles of food, though greatly inferior to the birds' nests we found yesterday.
On examining the nestswhich we had purchased, we found that they were composed of a gelatinous substance something like isinglass.
This brought them at once into good humour, and they very readily sold us a dozen or more of the nests, though I thought the price for birds' nests a very high one.
You see, Emily, these creatures build nests for themselves and their young ones, and indeed, from what Tanda told Mr Sedgwick, I believe they build one every night when they go to sleep in the boughs of a large tree.
Do you mean to say, Mr Hooker, by that, that there are birds' nests fit to eat?
Mr Hooker told us that the trade in birds' nests employs a large amount of capital and men.
We observed their nests cleverly suspended between the horizontal forks of the outer branches of lofty trees, where they are not likely to be reached by the larger serpents which prey on birds.
Out of the fournests which I saw, three contained twenty-two eggs each, and the fourth twenty-seven.
By the side of many of these nests a small flying-fish was placed; which I suppose, had been brought by the male bird for its partner.
During the breeding season, they attempt, like our peewits, by feigning to be wounded, to draw away from theirnests dogs and other enemies.
A number of nests are placed so close together as to form one great mass of sticks.
Even the birds had built their nests in the scales of the balance, Having no fear of the sword that flashed in the sunshine above them.
Harry and Bert searched in the close syringa bushes where the nests are usually found.
Vultures lay two eggs at a time and only once a year: they build their nests on the same kind of places as eagles do, so that it is very hard to find them.
Such features as mountain-rocks with their eagle-nests would be modified to bring the topography more into harmony with that of Denmark, so that the caverned rock would naturally become an earth-cave.
Here he takes refuge in a caverned rock, called Eagle Rock, because there were built on it the nests of four eagles who constantly faced the four points of the compass.
The consequence was that, while foreign commodities were pouring fast into the harbours of Londonderry, Carrickfergus, Dublin, Waterford and Cork, every mariner avoided Limerick and Galway as nests of pirates.
Shouldn't you think that baby phoebes, reared in nests under railroad bridges, would {169} be fearfully frightened whenever a train thundered overhead?
But a larger chestnut brown cousin, the Carolina wren, with a prominent white eyebrow, a bird which is quite common in the Middle and Southern States, sometimes nests in outbuildings and in all sorts of places about the farm.
The cuckoo's and the dove's nests are fine pieces of architecture compared with a heron's.
Some over-thrifty housekeepers, nevertheless, tear down nests from their piazzas, because the poor little phoebes are so afflicted with lice that they are considered objectionable neighbours.
No one abhors the killing of birds and the {vii} robbing of nests more than he; few men, not specialists, know so much about bird life.
Unlike many of their kind a pair of these herons prefer to build their rickety nests apart by themselves rather in one of those large, sociable, noisy and noisome colonies which we {260} associate with the heron tribe.
Some nests have been placed as far as four feet from the entrance.
Although their nests are not so deep as the Baltimore orioles', the shape and weave are similar.
A photograph of a colony I have seen shows one hundred and fifteen nests nearly all of which touch one another.
Last winter, when that vicious vine had lost every leaf, I counted in it eighteen catbird nests within a quarter of a mile along a country lane.
Two and even three-storied nests are to be found by bright-eyed boys and girls.
Several nests in those woods are saddled on to the horizontal {89} limbs of the white oak.
What could a female turtle do with a whole field of possible nests to choose from?
Make for yourselves nests of pleasant thoughts,' Ruskin urged.
The large nests Captain King mentions as having been found upon the coast I imagine must have belonged to this species.
In the beginning of March I found many nests with eggs in them; and in the end of that month eggs nearly hatched were observed in most of the nests, as well as young birds occasionally.
These nests were formed of dead grass, and parts of bushes, sunk a slight depth into two parallel furrows, in sandy soil, and then nicely arched above.
All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under his shadow dwelt all great nations.
Here the goddess appears to be identified with the doves which rest on the walls and make their nests in the shrine.
But there's the drawing I made of it at the place, showing all the nests just as I found them, and there's the dried up body of the little Shrew.
The darkness is augmented and confused, by flying dust from the earth, dry twigs from the trees, and great ragged fragments from the rooks' nests up in the tower.
And I am besides totally unacquainted with the habits of birds, except the birds of Staple Inn, who seek their nests on ledges, and in gutter- pipes and chimneypots, not constructed for them by the beneficent hand of Nature.
Though there are sometimes a dozen storks' nests on one roof in the neighbouring Turkish villages, yet no one will settle on mine, even though I have two comfortable nests made for them.
While camp was kept up near the great falls, Jack and Chicory had some splendid nesting expeditions, the pendulous weaver, birds' nests coming in largely for their attention.
Too many nestsare despoiled for so-called scientific purposes, and a limit should be set to the number of eggs that may be taken by any one for either private or public institutions.
The nests of these birds are platforms of sticks, built close to the trunks of trees, from eight to eighteen feet from the ground.
It is built almost entirely of wire, protected only on the north and west by an open shed, under which the birds sleep, build their nests and gather during the rains which we occasionally have throughout the winter months.
They excavate their holes in the dead young pine trees at a height from the ground of five or six feet, in this respect differing from their cousins, who make their nests at a much greater height.
This Grouse nests on the ground, often under shelter, of a hollow log or projecting rock, with merely a few pine needles scratched together.
Second nests are sometimes built in July or August.
As a rule, the Dickcissels do not begin to prepare for housekeeping before the first of June, but in advanced seasons the nests are made and the eggs deposited before the end of May.
In the nests are deposited from four to six pure ivory-white eggs.
It was a nest from the year before; and since grebe-nests are built in such a way that they can move on water like boats, it often happens that they drift out toward the lake.
The big swans' nests had been torn away, and the strong wind was driving them down the bay.
Now one afternoon, when the crows had put theirnests in order on crow-ridge, they happened upon a remarkable find.
That must be one of those eagle nests that Gorgo--" But this was as far as he got.
Among the nests of Foreign birds, that of the Taylor Bird deserves especial mention; the bird itself is a diminutive one, being little more than three inches long; it is an inhabitant of India.
Many of the Orioles' nests are also deserving notice.
The nests are found in great numbers together, and are by the luxurious Asiatics made into broths, and otherwise cooked, and are esteemed one of the greatest dainties of the table; they are also occasionally used for glue.
In concluding this account of the nests of birds, I may notice here the nest of the Hirundo esculenta, or Esculent Swallow, an inhabitant of China and the Islands of the Indian Ocean.
The structure of the nests of birds affords, perhaps, one of the most agreeable lessons in Natural History.
Of the nests of Rooks, it may be sufficient to observe, that they are often found to the number of six, or even more in a cluster.
Crows' nests are always solitary; they are similar in structure to those of the rook.
I think both those gentlemen have the same view in end--to feather their respective nests under cover of a general smash," said Speed.
The embassies were nests of spies; every salon a breeding spot of intrigue; the foreign governments employed the grande dame as well as the grisette.
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