In the treetops a golden warbler and a redstart were singing.
Illustration: Nest and Eggs of American Redstart] How elegantly dressed the American redstart (Setophaga ruticilla) appears on his arrival from his winter home!
Another time a redstart was taught the lesson that it did not pay to "hang around" this little bird's home.
Dippers, wagtails and the white-capped redstart were the commonest birds along the river-banks.
There was a snow bunting with bright scarlet breast and head, also a beautiful redstart with red body and black and white wings.
But though not averse to the haunts of men, the Redstart shows much anxiety when its nest is approached, flitting about restlessly and uttering a plaintive cry.
The song of the Redstart is short but pleasing, and it is emitted both while the bird is at rest and on the wing, principally in the morning, and only during two months of the year.
The range of the American Redstart is quite extended, including, as we may say, all of North America, though it is very rare and irregular in the States west of the Sierras.
The Wheatear bred in the quarries there, but the Redstart loved the range of rocks that ran bulwark-like along the valley above the copse.
Amongst the fruit trees the Titmice and Flycatchers have their favourite nooks and crannies, and the Redstart has returned as long as we can remember to the hole in the old pear-tree.
Both Redstart and Wheatear are only birds of summer in our islands, the latter arriving perhaps a week before the former, in April.
In the coppice just above Bell Hagg the Redstart was very common.
The Indian redstart is a sexually dimorphic species, that is to say the cock differs from the hen in appearance; the former, moreover, is seasonally dimorphic.
Two species ofredstart visit England, and these also are characterised by reddish tails.
The gradual change in colour undergone by the cock redstart every year is instructive, because it seems to show that the bird is even now undergoing evolution.
Several species of redstart are found within Indian limits, but only one of them haunts the plains, and so thoroughly deserves the name of the Indian redstart (Ruticilla rufiventris).
The redstart stays in India until May, when it goes into Tibet and Afghanistan to breed.
But during the winter the grey edges gradually become worn away, and the black portions then show, so that by the middle of the summer the cock redstartis a black bird.
The hen Indian redstart is reddish brown where the cock is grey or black, and red where he is red.
Even as the cuckoo is welcomed in England as the harbinger of the sweet spring, so in Northern India is the redstart looked for as the herald of the glorious cold weather.
I ought not to name redstart as a regular occupant of the orchard.
In fact, I never saw a redstart who seemed to know that we humans ought to be dreaded.
The Redstart is the presiding genius of woodland and grove.
Our Redstart shares with the Yellow Warbler alone the distinction of representing among us in ipsa specie the Warbler hosts of the East.
The same authority compares the bird's song to that of the redstartand the yellow warbler.
Any one can tell Zee Zee the Redstart by his black and flame colored suit.
Probably he and Mrs. Redstartwill make their home on the edge of the Green Forest.
There was no doubt about his being a redstart baby, as I had been convinced from the first.
If he were a chestnut-sided infant, how did he come in a redstart nest, and what had the redstart to do with him?
It was a redstart nest without doubt, but who owned the baby?
The redstart himself told me where his treasures were "hid in a leafy hollow.
It had all the airs of ownership, and its colors were olive and yellow; had, then, the roguish redstart deceived me, after all?
Six days appears to be the limit of time a redstart baby can submit to a cradle.
Was it his aim to coax that young redstart to desert his family and follow after the traditions of the chestnut-sided?
The only really annoying destruction of hedges in our immediate neighbourhood within my recollection is one for which I ought always to be grateful, for it brought me a sight of the only Black Redstart I have ever seen in England.
For exactly four years I saw no other Black Redstart in Oxfordshire.
The Redstart was not a very common bird about us until about three years ago, but now its gentle song is heard in May in almost every garden and well-hedged field.
At this age redstart nestlings preen vigorously and fly short distances.
The redstart is the most active of the active warblers, and the number of gnats, flies, caterpillars, moths, other insects and their eggs that these birds consume or feed to their nestlings in one day is incredible.
Here was the nest of a redstart containing four fresh eggs.
While we admire the redstart for its beauty and its charming little songs, we respect the bird for his utility.
The redstart is one of the most beautiful of the warblers.
The American Redstart seems to be uncommon in Coahuila.
The Painted Redstart seems to be locally common in Coahuila.
Recalling the ceaseless activities of a Yellow Warbler the observer feels, without quite knowing why, that he has discovered another Warbler of some kind when a Redstart or Chestnut-sided Warbler appears.
These proved most acceptable, and the Redstart immediately appropriated them, one at a time, with the result that she soon betrayed her nest.
To get a full view of a redstart is also very difficult, as it is for ever dodging behind a branch, and, as the name implies, is never still.
The song of the Redstart resembles very closely that of the Black and White Creeper, but differs in being less prolonged, and in its quicker, sharper intonation.
American Redstart |In the habit of capturing insects upon the wing, the sylvicoline subfamily of birds to which the Redstart belongs, resembles very closely the smaller Flycatchers, but it differs in being less sedentary.
The eggs of the Redstart are four in number, and bear some resemblance to those of the common Blue-eyed Yellow Warbler.
Unlike what is customary among birds, the female Redstart rivals the male in powers of song.
From what we read it seems that the Redstart does not always build directly upon a branch, but is occasionally prone to make use of the nest of some other species as a foundation.
It is laughable, almost pathetic, to see a tiny oven-bird or redstart feeding a strapping young cowbird which is several times as large as herself.
One day I heard a young redstart chirping for his dinner.
The Black Redstart which was formerly rare with us, is now a well-known visitor to many parts of our coasts in the autumn and winter, especially to Cornwall and Devon.
The Redstart is an elegant gay-coloured bird of slender shape, in other respects like the Robin.
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