I looked at the place where it had stood and through my tears it seemed I could almost see my little brother Charley and myself strolling along the beach as we so often did in the old days, chasing the plovers along the shore.
There was no little brother to help row the boat, or swing in the old swing from the big maple tree, or chase the plovers along the shore.
All signs of human life lay far behind; severed from them by those steep scorched slopes swept only by the plovers and the bees.
I have, however, not done so badly of late with the birds; I killed seventeen plovers this morning--a fine lot.
I had known the bay at the first glimmer of dawn with a flight of silver plovers wheeling for a rush over my decoys.
Snug at the lower end of the bay, a long mile from where the plovers rise, lies the lost village.
On the same day youngplovers nearly ready to fly were captured.
The Kentish plovers which attain their breeding plumage in the plains of India are certainly much brighter in color than any which are seen in Europe.
Nesting curlews and plovers were crying everywhere, and the links of green pasture by the streams were dotted with young lambs.
Otherwise there was only the calling ofplovers and the tinkling of little streams.
From among the reeds the plovers were rising; over the barren rocks the dazzling lizards glided; afar off strayed the goats; that was the only sign of animal existence.
I saw the old house last in a frosty December sunset, surrounded by floodwater, with farm horses splashing up the road, and plovers crying round the edges of the stream.
He took his station for this purpose in one of those moss-hags formerly described; but he had not well begun to call ere his ears were saluted by the whistling of so many plovers that he could not hear his own voice.
Pacific Golden Plovers in post-nuptial molt were first observed and collected on July 8.
The NAMRU2 party observed no Pacific Golden Plovers at Guam which might be regarded as non-migrants, but other species of shore birds were found which might be considered as such.
It preferred the fields and meadows to the shore lines, and was the companion of the plovers of the uplands, especially the golden plover.
Some of the small plovers and tattlers are also called sandpipers.
Plovers may be carved like quails or woodcock, being trussed and served in the same way as those birds.
When the flocks are heaviest, and during hard weather, from fifty to eighty plovers are sometimes secured at one raising of the net.
The vast flocks of plovers that congregate in autumn are said to be growing in numbers.
If they choose to go with us, they must come at once; we cannot be lingering here till the plovers begin their flight.
Swans fly slantingly, cranes in triangles, andplovers in serpentine windings.
The only creatures that one sees from the carriage windows on the railway journey are cows in the fields and plovers above them.
Now and then a man in his blue linen coat, now and then a heron; but cows always and plovers always.
At Culemberg the country begins to grow very green and rich: smooth meadows and vast woods as far as one can see: plovers all the way.
By one rapid practice-learned drag, the net was snatched over and fell on to the water, while a great flock of green plovers took flight in alarm and went flapping over reed-bed and mere.
It was a vain one, for one by one the plovers were dragged from beneath and thrust into a large basket, till the net lay half-sunk beneath the surface, and the feeble flapping of a wing or two was all that could be heard.
Small wading-birds, like ringed ploversand dunlin, commonly fly in "bunches.
Mr. Tarn shot twoplovers of a new species (Charadrius rubecola, Zool.
On the other hand golden plovers and lapwings are remarkably local in their winter habits, and so long as the weather remains open will frequent the same fields throughout the winter.
Only when the wind is adverse and strong do the plovers visit the Bermudas or even stop at any of the northern Lesser Antilles, 600 miles from the coast of South America.
The Golden Plover, sometimes called also Yellow Plover, and Green Plover, is found at various seasons In most countries of Europe; but the Golden Plovers of Asia and America are considered to be different species.
In the hilly districts of the north of Europe, Golden Plovers are numerous, sometimes being, with Ptarmigans, the only birds which relieve the solitude of the desolate wastes.
They are essentially Plovers in all their habits, except, perhaps, that they do not run so rapidly as some others of the tribe.
Just as Starlings habitually alight wherever they see Rooks or Gulls feeding, so the Grey Plovers join themselves on to any society of birds which has detected a good hunting-ground.
Though not ranked as song birds, many of the Snipes and Plovers have pleasing calls and whistles and in the breeding season they become highly musical or indulge in singular vocal performances.
The Plovers have shorter, harder bills than the true Snipe and several of our species frequent the uplands rather than muddy shore or tidal flats.
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