When nesting time is over, jackdaws seem to leave the church and roost with the rooks; they use the tower much as the rooks do their hereditary group of trees at a distance from the wood they sleep in at other seasons.
The wood in which both streams of rooks roost at night stands on the last slope of the downs; behind it to the south extend the hills, and the open tilled upland plains; below it northwards are the meadows.
The fowls, as they fly up to roost on the beams in the sheds, beat out feathers from their clumsy wings; these lie scattered on the ground, marking the spot.
Birds resort to the cattle-sheds, to roost; among them the blackbirds, who usually roost in the hedges.
This summer I saw large flocks of starlings flying to their favourite firs to roost on the evening of the 19th of June.
Fowls, for instance, at night roost in the sheds at some height from the ground--often the sheds are contrived specially to protect them; but in the day they roam about in the vicinity of the rickyards where they are kept.
Rooks, in returning to roostfly in long streams, starlings in numerous separate divisions.
Like the latter, it seems to thrive in captivity; it also loves warmth, and likes to go to roost with a warm companion on each side of it.
Crows habitually roost in the topmost branches of trees, which must be very violently shaken in a gale of wind; yet the birds never seem to lose their hold.
When daybreak comes the unlucky birds that have chanced to roost on the limed bamboos find that they cannot get away, that they are stuck to their perches!
They roost for a few nights in company before dispersing themselves over the face of the country.
Needless to say, the birds roost huddled together, and at bed-time there is great manoeuvring to avoid an outside position.
He used to go to roost with, not a stone in his hands, but a silver ball, as more befitting his royal dignity.
We gut some whoopin' nice young turks that like tuh roost in a certain tree.
This here's the tree the turks hes picked out tuh roost in.
A tree, I do not know how many feet high, on which we are to perch and roost like the birds?
Coultas (field notes) writes that he was told by natives that petrels nest and roost on the high cliffs behind the city of Agana on Guam.
With regard to their habits he writes, "About four o'clock in the afternoon these birds begin congregating in the high trees of the lowlands close to the salt water where they roost for the night.
The pigs are somewhat too sumptuously lodged in that elegant sty, and the hen-roost might accommodate a phoenix.
The rustling was caused by a silly chicken, who, in some way or other, had lost its way, and was now so extremely unwise as to go to roost over the head of a young jackal.
We saw it through the apertures in the shaft on its downward way and then heard the splash as it reached the distant water, while a crowd of pigeons who had retired to roost among the masonry dashed out and away.
Again, in America, is it possible that all these massive chins and firm aquiline beaks are ruling the roost and reaching whatever goal they set out for?
The wild turkey makes his haunts in the timber, and being gregarious birds they keep together in large flocks, and roost in the same place for years, if not disturbed.
I know that this is the very best time to hunt them, so let you, and Rob, and me go to that roost on Mud Creek this evening.
Just as the sun sank behind the hills beyond the Oxhide bluffs, Joe, Rob, and Mr. Tucker left Errolstrath for the turkey roost on Mud Creek.
I was down there the other afternoon, and I should think that hundreds roost there.
From the pigeon-roost there is a continuous roar, caused by the restless shifting of the birds, and sounds of impatient struggling, which can be distinctly heard for several miles.
At night they roost in pairs; but in the daytime are always in larger companies.
At night it went to roost in a sleeping-room--beside the hammock of one of the little girls, to whom it seemed to be greatly attached, following her wherever she went about the grounds.
He wasn’t at church to-day; he has probably gone over to the turkey roost in Bill’s Creek bottom.
I was not certain what would please him most, so I replied that the conversation then became general, and that Mr. Shepherd had said he would go with us some night to the turkey roost in Bill’s Creek bottom.
The carpet had transported them to bed just at the right moment, and the Phoenix had gone to roost on the cornice supporting the window-curtains of the boys' room.
I wouldn't if I were you,' said the Phoenix, yawning, as it swooped down from its roost on the curtain pole.
But secrets have to be long-winded and roost high if they want to get away when the 'Old Man' goes hunting for them.
They would roost here like a swarm of buzzards over a dying horse.
We suffered in this way, Billy and I, more than our fowls, for they had poles to roost on.
However, we did succeed in catching four or five more at intervals, and we turned our small hut into a fowl-house, putting poles across for them to roost on.
There is no need to recall to your memories Tunnel Hill, with Rocky-Face Mountain and Buzzard-Roost Gap, and the ugly forts of Dalton behind.
I do not intend to put a column into Buzzard-Roost Gap at present.
It rang over the little lake, and caused the birds about settling to roost to wonder what was going on.
Some perched upon the rocks, while others went to roost among the low thickets of mimosa; and now for a short interval both earth and air were silent.
The cock was gotten to roost in the stable among the horses, and there being no racks or other conveniences for him, it seems he was forced to roost upon the ground.
Had it not been that they were glad to get to any port, they might have felt chagrin on discovering that chance had directed them to the very same roost where they had perched on the preceding night.
It is called so, because, as you see, it's like the oven on which we bake our Cassava; and because it is the favourite roost of the piosoca.
The tree upon which they had made their roost was one of a species of which they had observed many during the day.
There was something strange in this behaviour, though in the anxiety of the hour but little heed was paid to it; and as the voices soon after ceased, the araruna became tranquillised, and sat quietly on the roost it had selected.
Early in the morning he comes forth from his bushy roost and struts about with a curving neck, raising his ruff, expanding his tail like a fan, and seeming to mimic the ostentation of the Turkey.
In wintry storms they seek shelter in the evergreens, but in spring and summer they often roost on the ground in company.
In the early 70's there was a small roost on Bark River, near Ft.
In the fall of 1862 we had fine sport shooting birds in the roost at Johnstown, Ohio (now Ada), some four weeks.
Their nesting sites would remain the same for years if the birds were unmolested, but they generally had to change every year or two, or as soon as the roostwas discovered by the despicable market netter.
Upon inquiry here among old residents, I am told that there was quite a large roost on a beech ridge about forty miles west of here, which would be at a point north of the present station of Eckerman.
The other boys killed nearly as many with smaller guns; we shot on theroost in the dark.
As we approached the swamp where the birds roosted, a few scattered birds were frightened from the roost along the edge of the swamp.
Our plan was to fire one barrel on the roost and the other as the pigeons flew.
There was a pigeon roost for many years in Wood County, in this State, but it has long since disappeared.
We had probably seen a thousand birds glancing around among the trees, before we came in view of the roost itself.
Tell me," queried Magh, maliciously, "do your Young roost on your nose?
And roost high, too," said Magh, "for Coyote and Gidar have been licking their chops for the last hour.
On the other hand, if I don't happen to meet anyone, I can pry about the place, and I should say that I am just as likely to be able to rob a hen-roost as you or Jules.
