A much better way is to examine the ground around his favourite roosting place, where we will find many pellets of fur and bones, with now and then a tiny skull.
Illustration: Would be like going to Venice and not having your picture taken with the doves roosting all over you] The woman in the picture behind the cloud of doves is my wife.
A turkey hen will stay close around the barn yard eating and drinking with the other fowls all winter, roosting in convenient tree tops, and giving no hint of wildness or firmness of purpose.
The middle one was a laying house; the other two, roosting houses.
In the summer the chickens were roosting in the trees, and when cold weather came and I wanted them to roost in the hen house they would not do it.
One half the car was partitioned off for roosting quarters, while the other half serves as a laying and scratching house.
The yard should be inclosed by wire netting both on sides and top to keep the birds from wandering away; and there should be houses for roosting and breeding with nesting quarters attached.
Sea Ice Provides Roosting Sites Ice provides a hard substrate that allows seabirds to leave the water to roost.
I have several times seen sparrows suspended in this way about their nesting and roosting places.
Illustration: [A cunning fox perceived some turkeys roosting securely on the bough of a high tree.
Roosting here, Sam began to shout for aid in every key possible to the human voice.
An automatic pistol was not the accurate weapon that a finely sighted rifle is, but the man was much nearer than one could ever get to a roosting turkey.
Small birds also, from time to time, were frightened from their roosting places in thickets.
They were all roosting lengthwise upon the logs and stumps back among the bushes.
The chicks keep close to the neighborhood of the home nest, feeding and roosting together, under the guidance of the parent birds.
They must, therefore, it seems, lie roosting too, in holes or crevices of the rocks.
On the steep side of one of the great 'stacks' opposite, kittiwakes are roosting in the most extraordinary numbers, and so close together that they look not like birds, but some outcrop on the surface of the rock.
Their aerial evolutions before roosting are sufficiently remarkable, but, perhaps, still more so from this point of view is the manner in which they leave the roosting-place in the morning.
It is the last flight, and, shortly afterwards, the loud harsh trumpeting of pheasants is heard in all the woods and coverts around, as they prepare to fly up into their own roosting trees.
With the exception of the Raven and Magpie, which live in pairs, the others reside together in large flocks, whether they are in quest of their daily food or roosting at night.
They readily seek shelter in the trees, both for roosting and in order to conceal themselves from their enemies.
The first place I struck for was the big oak, and there was Mr. Crow roosting on the very tiptoppest branch, looking as if he'd been asleep for a month.
Cocky Robin and Mr. Jay were roosting quite near the ground, where they could keep an eye out for foolish worms which might happen that way, and Mr. Turtle swept them off the branch like ninepins, knocking the two senseless.
Have you never heard that on some of our Indian lines, baboons, vultures, and other heavy creatures have sometimes almost broken down the telegraphs by taking exercise and roosting on the wires?
Polar bears are quite common in the woods, and it is said that walrus are fond of roosting in the trees.
There, roosting on one leg and blinking at them in the lamplight, was a huge gray goose.
But a thing with feathers, roosting in a tree, must be some kind of a fowl--yes?
This has been ascertained by persons keeping account of the arrival at, and departure from the curious roosting places, to which I must now conduct the reader.
The place they choose for building their nests, is very unlike the scene of confusion the roosting place presents.
The house was still and there were no noises from the horses and cattle in the barn--none from roosting peacock, turkey, and hen.
Every tree might have been weighted with roosting pheasants for all the sport that fact would afford them.
They had secured no spoil; the tree tops were too thick to see the roosting birds.
It made her feel old to see her children roosting in a tree.
When the Red Fox reached the farmyard, he found them roostingon the low branches of an apple-tree.
And sure enough there he was, roosting comfortably and unobserved on the tail-board of the wagon.
I made a circuit, and skinned every twig aloft in a vain endeavor to discover a roosting bird.
The barn lit by the lantern revealed two astonished oxen, a mild-eyed cow, a line of hens roosting on an old hayrack and Maria rubbing the frozen sides of the white horse.
That he landed lightly on his feet, with the cigarette still between his lips, the roosting twenty-five quite overlooked.
Andy remained roosting upon the top rail, his rope coiled loosely and dangling from one arm while he smoked imperturbably.
Then--like the great eagles roosting high overhead in the clefts of the mountainside--these mites of birds must needs tuck their heads beneath their wings for sleep; thus we three rested in the violent heat.
Had he been reared out of doors in the usual way, his parents would have taught him to find a roosting place that was secure from predatory foes.
A favorite roosting place for the sparrows, towhees, juncos, and even the robins, was in some thickets by the roadside.
Certain breeds of fowls have a taste for roosting in trees.
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