I judge from the paucity of records in the literature that the Eastern Wood Pewee is uncommon in Coahuila.
Western Wood Pewee was obtained in pine and oak vegetation by Dickerman.
The pewee belongs to quite a large family of birds, all of whom have strong family traits, and who are not the most peaceable and harmonious of the sylvan folk.
The wood pewee is the sweetest voiced, and, notwithstanding the ungracious things I have said of it and of its relations, merits to the full all Trowbridge's pleasant fancies.
It is, in fact, often falsely attributed to that bird, even when our books tell us that the Pewee is wintering in the tropics!
In color Phoebe and Pewee are much alike and both are Flycatchers, but the resemblance ends there.
Contopus virens) similar to the pewee (See Pewee, 1), but of smaller size.
See also several of the Swallows; the Kingbird, the Phoebe, the Wood Pewee and other Flycatchers; the Chimney Swift; and the Chewink.
The slightly large size of the phoebe and pewee is not always apparent when they are seen perching on the trees.
Without hearing this call-note one might often mistake the bird for either the wood pewee or the phoebe, for all the three are similarly clothed and have many traits in common.
This bird differs chiefly in its lighter coloring, but not in habits, from the black pewee of the Pacific slope.
This drama was enacted with clock-like regularity, neither party seeming to tire of its repetition, till the happy day when the pewee baby could fly, and appeared across the grove, near me.
The pewee I had noted from the building of her beautiful lichen-covered cradle in the crotch of a wild-cherry tree.
There may have been more, although I saw but one and heard but one baby cry, a prolonged but very low sound of pewee quality.
We introduced ourselves to Madam Wood-Pewee not by ringing and sending up cards, but by pausing before her door, seating ourselves on our stools, and leveling our glasses at her house.
While their charge lingered so near me, I was treated to another sensation by one of the pair,--a pewee song.
The wood-pewee was unheard, and even the vireo seemed to have finished his endless song and gone his way.
The young thrasher and the robin chirped in the grove; sweet bluebird and pewee baby cries came from the shrubbery; the golden-wing leaned far out of his oaken walls, and called from morning to night.
The wood pewee builds an exquisite nest, shaped and finished as if cast in a mould.
It is only the oriole and the wood pewee that, as a rule, go higher than this.
The pewee had one special bare twig of his own that he used for a perch, and when the gnat seated himself there in his neighbor's absence he looked so small that I realized what a mite of a bird he really was.
To my delight the wood pewee flew up in the tree, sat down on a horizontal crotch, and went through the motions of moulding.
One of them got his spider's web from beside the pewee's nest, when the pewee was away.
The wood pewee had moved too, and to my surprise and pleasure I found it had begun its nest on a branch under the gnats, so that both families could be watched at the same time.
The pewee did not altogether relish having us established under its vine and fig-tree.
Some days before finding out the facts, I suspected that the wood pewee perching on the old tree had more important business there, for the way he and his mate flew back and forth to the oak top was very pointed.
The wood pewee and the kingbird succeed, I think, in driving him away; but the vireos and warblers, being so much smaller, suffer greatly from his depredations.
A multitude of gnats circling about in the air, seemed to be precisely to the taste of the pewee parents and their hungry bairns.
As lavish a minstrel as the pewee pater familias is under most circumstances, that morning he was too busy to tune his wind harp.
The wood pewee builds a neat, compact socket-shaped nest of moss and lichens on a horizontal branch.
Since the country has become settled, this pewee has fallen into the strange practice of occasionally placing its nest under a bridge, hay-shed, or other artificial structure, where it is subject to all kinds of interruptions and annoyances.
The green-crested pewee builds its nest in many instances wholly of the blossoms of the white-oak.
The bridge pewee inhabits the vicinity of dwellings, while the wood peweeoccurs in the woods.
Pewee felt in his heart that Jack had a contempt for him, and this it was that made him hate Jack in turn.
And as Pewee was Riley's defender, he felt as proud of these rude nicknames as he would had he invented them and taken out a patent.
Pewee was flattered by this way of putting the question.
And thus, by the time Pewee and Riley arrived, half the larger boys in the school were in the game, and there were not enough left to make a good game of bull-pen.
Of course, Pewee, as a faithful echo, said just what Riley said, and Ben Berry said what Riley and Pewee said; so that the three were quite unanimous.
And Pewee threw off his coat, while Jack did the same.
King Pewee did not fall upon his victim at the school-house door; this would have insured him another beating from the master.
Pewee was hammering Jack without pity, when suddenly he was caught by the collar and lifted sharply to his feet.
Pewee was now sure that the boat had been taken as indemnity for the chicken and the eggs.
Without hearing this call-note one might often mistake the bird for either the wood peweeor the ph[oe]be, for all the three are similarly clothed and have many traits in common.
The slightly larger size of the ph[oe]be and pewee is not always apparent when they are seen perching on the trees.
The great crested flycatcher has a harsh voice, but the pathetic and silvery note of the wood pewee more than makes up for it.
I have seen him turn tail to a swallow, and have known the little pewee in question to whip him beautifully.
The wood peweebuilds a neat, compact, socket-shaped nest of moss and lichens on a horizontal branch.
The green-crested pewee builds its nest in many instances wholly of the blossoms of the white oak.
To tell the Pewee from the Pea, Requires great per-spi-ca-city.
Like other bird mothers, the wood pewee is devoted to her nestlings.
His dress is about the same, and he catches his flies in pewee fashion, but his voice is not in the least like that we hear on the Atlantic side of the country.
The Eastern wood pewee has a low, sweet voice, of which one cannot get tired.
One lady who watched a wood pewee build her nest heard her sing to herself as she worked what sounded like "O-wee-wee-wee.
Only the pewee and the red-eyed vireo, whom neither midday nor midsummer heat can silence, share the stage with him then.
Really he is no more melancholy than the plaintive pewee but, on the contrary, is so happy in his love that his devotion has passed into a proverb.
While not so ready to be neighbourly as the phoebe, the pewee condescends to visit our orchards and shade trees.
The chickadee, whippoorwill, phoebe andpewee also tell you their names, but this bird announces himself by two names, so you need make no mistake.
A wood warbler, on the contrary, always brings before me the rush and hurry of the world of people, and the wood pewee its under-current of eternal sadness.
Into the mood induced by the melancholy pewee song breaks how completely and how happily the cheery optimism of the chickadee!
I know both the kingbird and the woodpewee sing, not, to be sure, in a way to be compared to the thrushes, though far excelling the utterances of the warblers.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pewee" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
