The rest of the time they roosted under trees, one hind leg relaxed, their eyes half closed, their ears wabbling, the pictures of imbecile content.
She was the only one left of a covey that the night before had roosted unbroken, snugly wedged, with their tails together, under a pile of brush.
They roosted with the chickens several nights, but took to the fields again as soon as the snow began to melt.
I judged that the birds roosted but a few feet from the ground.
At any rate, in July I discovered that a large number of buzzards roosted in some woods near Rock Creek, about a mile from the city limits; and, as they do not nest anywhere in this vicinity, I thought they might be males.
And he strutted, a little faster than usual, toward the tree near the farmhouse where he roosted every night.
With their webbed feet they never roosted in trees.
It was probably one of the pigeons that roosted in the ivy-grown oak.
During the frost a blackbird had roosted in a corner of the hut under the rafters, sparrows too had sought its shelter, and wrens and blue-tits had crept into the crevices of the eaves.
It is suggestive of his havingroosted during the night in a draft, which has inflamed his vocal chords so that his tones have lost their sweetness.
She roosted there and worried about him until suddenly (she could never tell how it happened) she seemed to know just what was the matter.
That night she and her brood roostedin the old apple-tree in the corner of the orchard nearest the poultry-yard.
So he followed the bird, eating of the fruits of the earth and drinking of its waters, for ten days' space, and every night the bird roosted on a tree.
If any domestic race had descended from a species which was not social, or which built its nest and roosted in trees (6/4.
Mr. Gould has made the same remark to me, that the aboriginal parent must have been a species which roosted and built its nest on rocks; and I may add that it must have been a social bird.
We have therefore good reason to believe that all the domestic races of the pigeon are descended either from some one or from several species which both roosted and built their nests on rocks, and were social in disposition.
Lyell from Miss Buckley, that some half-bred Carriers kept during many years near London regularly settled by day on some adjoining trees, and, after being disturbed in their loft by their young being taken, roosted on them at night.
The next night an eager tourist persuaded me to give him a share of the perch, and we roosted silently and patiently until after midnight.
And the preacher rebuilt his fire, climbed upon a log, and roosted there, with cocked carbine, until daybreak, while the Lieutenant slept and snored.
But what struck me most was, that, from the time they began to congregate, forsaking the chimneys and houses, they roosted every night in the osier-beds of the aits of that river.
Serve him jolly well right," declared one of the listeners, and his opinion was universally seconded, for Bracebrydge was not popular among those who roosted on the railing.
There were many sunshades and up-to-date hats and costumes scattered about the lawn, yet upwards of forty British subalterns roosted upon the railing.
Well, sir, they roosted around here on the housetop and the trees for an hour, and guffawed over that thing like human beings.
If any domestic race had descended from a species which was not social, or which built its nest or roostedin trees,[319] the sharp eyes of fanciers would assuredly have detected some vestige of so different an aboriginal habit.
Therefore, although he went supperless to bed, he was fortunate in that he roosted in the branches that night, instead of lying claws upwards on the ground.
One night twelve hens roosted in an outhouse with a defective latch at John Skehan's farm.
All the streams were timbered, some more heavily than others, and in the branches of the tall cottonwoods wild turkeys roosted by thousands, while deer and antelopes in great herds grazed in the grassy bottoms.
In a large grove of cottonwoods just above our camp hundreds upon hundreds of wild turkeys roosted every night.
In severe winters wood-pigeons did much damage at Aldington to young clover a few inches high; they roosted in "the island" adjoining my garden.
He roosted in the orchard just across the road on the trunk of an ancient leaning apple-tree.
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