Other birds fly for a purpose: the peewit seems to find enjoyment beating to and fro in the air.
When the peewit alights he runs along a few yards rapidly, as if carried by the impetus.
Of birds the black and white peewit is not uncommon;--cormorants, etc.
Noticed the tracks of a Tiger, of Elks, and the Peewit or Curlew.
Water-fowl, snipe, and red pie-like peewit or plover.
Perhaps it may be wondered why I have not included the peewit in the list of birds which employ, or appear to employ, a ruse in favour of their young ones, since this bird is always given as the stock instance of it.
I have seen a peewit make continual sweeps down at a hen pheasant as she stood in a wheat-field, striking at her each time with its wings, in the air, obviously not in play but in earnest.
But they have never professed to have seen a peewit flapping over the ground as with a broken wing, in the way it is so constantly said to do.
Here, then, in the stock-dove we have at the nuptial season a kind of flight which seems certainly to be of the nature of a combat, very much resembling that of the peewit at the same season.
Now the tips of the chestnut twigs might bulge and bud, but spring was not spring until the plover paraded his new black breast, or a peewit rose screaming at the midnight intruder.
Nearer home a peewit called, and Robert Carlton caught himself wondering whether there would be rain before morning.
But when he standeth on his somewhat long legs, and thou seest that his under parts be white, why, even a Frenchman would know he was no pigeon, but must be the peewit or lapwing.
It was the spring note, so that, this being in January, also, it would have been still more remarkable had the peewit itself uttered it.
Either this is a very original method of washing, on the part of peewits in general, or this particular peewit is a very original bird.
My glass is now upon a peewit standing negligently on the warrens, when another one, entering its field, flies right down upon and pairs with this bird, without having previously alighted on the ground.
When labouring under any such disadvantage, even if it be only rheumatism or a cold in the head, a chancepeewit may be cut off and reckoned in the hawk's score.
If a cast of haggards could be trained for peewit or snipe, and well entered, they would probably have as good a chance as any hawk which could be selected for these difficult flights.
By which I do not mean that no peewit is ever taken by a peregrine.
It was on such an occasion that Nixon Warren, who had begun his scout service as a member of the Peewit Patrol of Philadelphia, obtained his coveted chance of seeing Spotty Seal at close quarters.
We found many nests of Peewit and Redshank, those of the latter by far the best concealed, always in some thick clump of grass or samphire.
The fare which can be obtained by the gun at this season is meagre enough: ducks or plovers are sorry food for hungry men, though a hare, shot on a grassy savanna, is acceptable enough; nor are the eggs of coot or peewit to be despised.
Oh yes,” the peewit answered, “they all enjoy their life.
Now whilst the mother peewit is sitting quietly on her eggs, the father peewit keeps flying and tumbling about in the air.
All at once the peewit flew down on to the ground again.
It is too dreadful to think about,” the peewit said.
I don’t wonder at your wishing that,” the peewit said.
He had gone down on his hands and knees, and was looking at the eggs, for they interested him more even than the little peewit that had just been hatched.
Of course they were much smaller than the eggs that a hen lays, but still, Tommy Smith thought, they were large eggs for a peewit to lay.
Tommy Smith would rather have listened to what the peewit had to tell him about himself first, and then asked him some questions afterwards, for, just then, he didn’t quite know what questions to ask.
This time she did not fly away, for the father peewithad told her not to be uneasy.
When you go for a walk over the fields, you do not notice the mother peewit on her eggs, for she sits quite still and never moves.
She is not far off,” the peewit answered, “and she is sitting on her eggs.
The peewit flew up as she stumbled over the mound of earth where it had built its nest.
All birds seem to give a sparrow hawk a wide berth, but one often sees a kestrel pursued, most frequently perhaps by a rook, but sometimes by a peewit or a gull.
The peculiar instinct of thepeewit in misleading people as to the whereabouts of its eggs, or young ones, is very curious.
You know how cunning the peewit is in trying to lead people away from its nest or young ones.
The Peewit is a common and rather numerous autumn and winter visitant to all the Islands, though I have never seen it in such large flocks as in some parts of England, especially in Somerset.
Professor Ansted includes the Peewit in his list, but only marks it as occurring in Guernsey.
As he went the cry of a peewit rose in the morning air "Pee-wit, pee-weet-weet!
When you hear me cry as the peewit cries, run as quickly as may be towards the boat.
Yet that peewit found time in that fraction of a second to rise, open her wings, and get two feet into the air.
I cried when the moon was murmuring to the birds, 'Let peewit call and curlew cry where they will, I long for your merry and tender and pitiful words, For the roads are unending and there is no place to my mind.
There is also a species ofpeewit who utters a rather pretty call, which might be supposed to be the Marathi version of what the English peewit says.
The peewit trembled in every limb, and, in token of submission, let wings and tail droop to the ground.
Solomon was inflamed with anger, especially as he needed the peewit during his journey over the desert, to discover for him the hidden wells and fountains.
The peewit flew like an arrow, and on the morrow appeared before Balkis, and gave her the missive.
The peewit pipes, “He that hath no mercy, will not find mercy himself.
The eagle mounted aloft, till the earth was beneath him like a revolving bowl, and he looked in all directions, and at length he spied the peewit coming from the south.
The eagle obeyed, and found that the peewit was missing.
A king and a queen are wandering there, and the sound Has made them so happy and hopeless, so deaf and so blind With wisdom, they wander till all the years have gone by; I know, and the curlew and peewit on Echtge of streams.
Many of these eggs are passed off for those of the Peewit by unscrupulous dealers, notably in Leadenhall market.
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