It is only when evening approaches that the rookery is stilled, and even then only after a preliminary clamour from home-coming birds, in conclave, that makes one's ears sing again.
For the note of the rookery is a distinctly querulous one, always in opposition.
The double row of elms immediately west formed the east range of Elm Grove, and in 1817 became the first resort of the rooks, which had been driven away from Preston Rookery by Mr. Stanford.
In one rookery there were many varieties of these oceanic birds, and a species of booby that seems to be peculiar to Christmas Island.
A hundred yards away from therookery of the tropic birds was one of a colony of the snowy tern before mentioned.
Through rookery after rookery of birds, we climbed until we reached the edge of the summit.
The top of the rock was somewhat cone-shaped, and in order to reach the peak and the colonies on the west side we had to make our way through this rookery of the murres.
There were probably one hundred thousand of these birds inhabiting Corkscrew Rookery at the time of my visit.
Illustration: Hungry Young Egrets] The teeming thousands of birds in this rookery feed their young to a more or less extent on fish, and from the nests many fragments fall into the mud and water below.
Who would ever want to come away up here to bury themselves from civilization, and in such a silly old rookery as this?
I should say that Alec ought to be able to take all the pictures he needs of this old rookery this morning," remarked Arthur.
However, as the bulk of the birds must fly to quite a distance from an immense rookery to find food, it necessarily follows that the main flocks arrive and depart evening and morning.
When a rookery is visited, nests may be found in all manner of situation.
Sometimes the returning birds will settle on a limb which holds nests and then many eggs are dashed to the ground, and beneath the trees of a rookery one may always find a lot of smashed eggs.
Have never known any rookery near the lake or in Lake Superior Basin, although I think they did breed near Lake Superior, for they were in such great quantities about the lake during the whole summer.
Gunn, found a rookery in a cedar woods in Cheboygan County.
The frightful destruction that is sure to accompany the nesting of a rookery of Passenger Pigeons is bound to attract the observer's eye.
The "living waterfall" effect of thousands of seabirds pouring off a rookery is truly spectacular, but each such occurrence during incubation and brooding periods causes a rain of eggs or young to fall from the cliffs (Sowl and Bartonek 1974).
It is possible, however, that a spill could have significant adverse effects on sea otters and fur seals, especially at a rookeryduring the pupping season.
Who can conceive of their astonishment and mortification, when they found that the mistress of the Rookery was no other than the former governess, Agnes Elwyn!
There was also, formerly, a rookery on some large elm trees in the College Garden behind the Ecclesiastical Court in Doctors' Commons, a curious anecdote concerning which has been recorded.
There is an old rookery belonging to the Rectory close by our house; and one day the rooks from there came to our elm-tree.
There is another rookery in the town, in the garden of Mrs. Cross, a friend of my mother's.
The rookery remained within the recollection of the present generation, and only disappeared when garden and greensward were taken possession of by the builder, and the tumultuous occupants became but a memory of the past.
It is as though a rookery sat in judgment upon a falcon.
The quick eyes of the Bishop had perceived a drift of rooks when on their evening flight to the rookery were passing along the very line which divided the hawk from the heron.
The tree was black with the peasants who had climbed into it, and all round it was a huge throng, chattering and calling like a rookery at sunset.
Nothing now remains of them but the original chalybeate spring, which is still preserved in an obscure nook, amidst a poverty- stricken and squalid rookery of misery and vice.
The site of its once pleasant garden in Holborn, from whence Richard Duke of Gloucester requested a dish of strawberries from the Bishop on the morning he sent Lord Hastings to execution, is now a rookery of mean hovels.
To get men out of a rookery men are put into a tenement; and at the beginning the healthy human soul loathes them both.
The third instance was that of a colored family of husband, wife, and baby in a wretched rear rookery in West Third Street.
More than once I have returned, after a few brief weeks, to some specimen rookery in which I was interested, to find it gone and an army of workmen delving twenty feet underground to lay the foundation of a mighty warehouse.
When the news reached me that a small "plavum" was found dead ashore at the North Rookery of Bering Island, I immediately ordered dogs, and arrived at the place in company with the "starost.
At Cape Adare in 1911, half the rookery had departed when we arrived in the autumn.
In describing the Cape Adare rookery I mentioned the fact that the pebbles entering into the formation of the beach are basaltic, and therefore of a dead black shade.
Owing to our having several snowfalls without wind, and to the action of the sun on the black rock, which I have mentioned already, the rookery became a mass of slush in many places, and in some of the lower-lying parts actually flooded.
So carefully did we keep the entire rookeryunder observation that I do not think it likely there were any more Isabelline forms.
When I visited Cape Royds in 1911 I found a couple nesting alone in a cove known as "Black Sand Beach," some half mile from the rookery there.
Probably the information which more nearly concerns the penguins of Cape Adare rookery will be found in Table A.
And down upon me, asrookery after rookery of old birds whirred in fright from their ledges, fell crashing eggs and unfledged young, that the greedy gulls devoured ere they touched the sea.
Through rookery after rookery of birds we climbed until we reached the edge of the summit.
A rookery in one's grove or shade-trees may be quite a source of profit.
Year after year the young are killed, and yet the rookery is not abandoned, nor the old birds discouraged.
I witnessed this chicken-killing in a rookery on the banks of the Doon.
I'm going to search for it, and I'll find it if I have to tear the oldrookery to pieces bit by bit.
A more gloomy, desolate-looking old rookery it would have been difficult to have found.
Didn't you examine this blessed old rookery from garret to cellar, not over a year ago?
He led the way around the corner into Catherine street, and paused before an old tumble-down rookery bearing the sign "The Donegal Shades, by P.
The men of the Rookerytried to dissuade him from that.
Then the Rookery would know him again, and the men of the Monastery--know him going his own way.
As they climbed the stairs of the Rookery Baldwin found the moment suited for sage counsel to Chalmers.
Where the careless picture makers of the Rookery were content with assurances that he could turn out marketable "stuff," Teevan showed him far and lofty eminences that he might scale, had he a spirit for the feat.
The men returned home in one boat, having left the other at the Penguin Rookery some way east.
The day before yesterday the men with one or two women and some children went by boat to the rookery to fetch home three heifers.
Repetto thinks that at present about one thousand have been taken from the Rookery this season.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rookery" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: birthplace; brooder; cradle; dump; hole; hotbed; hovel; nest; nursery; rookery; slum; stable; tenement
