In autumn our resident Redshanks are largely increased in numbers by migratory individuals from more northerly latitudes; many of these pass on to winter quarters further south, but many others remain with us for the winter.
Between the tides Redshanks often collect on some mud-bank, where in a serried throng they keep up a confused babel of subdued cries, as if all were talking and none listening.
As soon as the young are able to fly (for only one brood is reared in the season) the redshanks form into family parties or small flocks and work their way down the valleys toward the shore.
Redshanks are alert and noisy birds, rising from their moorland haunts when alarmed, and keeping up their shrill double note with almost irritating persistency.
We saw several pairs of Redshanks near the swollen streams, many Plovers in the distance, a few Dippers, Common Sandpipers, and Mergansers.
Sometimes it was to defend ourselves from the hungry redshanks who itched to dig their daggers into some body, little matter whose.
A shout from Sorley Boy restored order among the redshanks in a moment; and, without waiting for further parley with the Deputy, he stalked to the head of his men, and with the single order "To Dunluce!
Then came the strange part of the procession, for at the heels of these English cavaliers stalked fifty huge redshanks with the McDonnell's heather in their bonnets, and their hands on their sword-hilts.
Unpeopled earth seemed to her desirable as unadulterated food; the speech of man among the cries of the redshanks would have been to her like sand in the sugar.
When Richard comes he will take you on the sea-wall and show you the redshanks in the little streams among the mud.
But nothing came to her save the memory of the cold, wet, unargumentative cry of the redshanks that she had heard on the marshes.
It was decided to attack the Redshanks in their own islands, and a fleet assembled at Lambay from which great things were evidently expected.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "redshanks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
