Robins back, phoebes back, watercress for the table, chickweed in blossom, and a bird's nest with eggs in it!
Still," as he would modestly remark, "we must remember that we are the only Phoebes here, and that it is not fair to compare them with the young of other birds.
The little Phoebes were hatched much like other birds, and were about as good and about as naughty as children usually are.
He saw plenty of good window ledges and places which would do for Robins and Phoebes and other birds who plaster their nests.
That was the way in which the Phoebes began housekeeping.
You know we Phoebes like to fly in and out of ponds and rivers, even when we cannot stop for a real bath.
A pair of phoebes become attached to a spot where they have once nested; they never stray far from it, and return to it regularly, though they may not again occupy the old nest.
When not domesticated, as these birds are rapidly becoming, the phoebes dearly love a cool, wet woodland retreat.
Half a dozen or more phoebes were in the edge of a wood; and they too seemed to have found out that, if worst came to worst, the tree-boles would yield a pittance for their relief.
Individually, thephoebes were almost as noisy as the robins, but of course their numbers were far less.
But though the nests escape the young phoebes are very liable to come to grief, and their elders nearly wear themselves out when the young first leave the nest, which they often choose to do on a very stormy day.
Young phoebes show none of these aggressive qualities, and have the most gentle and attractive manners and a peculiar air of innocence that is most captivating.
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.
Presently a mate comes from somewhere south of the Carolinas where she has passed the winter; for phoebes are more hardy than the rest of the family and do not travel all the way to the tropics.
The first nest is usually so infested that the phoebes either tear it down in July, and build a new one on its site, or else make the second nest at a little distance from the first.
Dugmore) 164 Time for these Young Phoebes to Leave the Nest.
He was called out of town the next day, and when he came back a week later he found that the phoebes had deserted their old nest.
When two phoebes started to build on his porch, he tried the same plan.
Oh," replied Dear Me, "we Phoebesalways have been fond of building under bridges.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "phoebes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
