It seems to avoid the prairie regions of southern Canada; William Rowan tells me that he and C.
Professor Rowan refers to it as probably the most plentiful wader in Alberta in the first half of September; he has taken it there as late as November 8.
William Rowan about the breeding dowitchers of Alberta, including interchange of specimens.
William Rowan tells me that it is always very abundant in Alberta during May and that the males come alone at first, then mixed flocks, and finally only females.
It seems to be a rare bird in the interior Provinces of Canada; my Manitoba correspondents have no fall records, and Professor Rowan has only one for Alberta.
William Rowan writes to me: In very dirty weather, particularly if a gale is blowing, stilt sandpipers have been noted hunting for food high and dry on rough pasture.
William Rowan has sent me the following notes: Identification marks of the stilt are excellent and it is quite an easy bird to spot in almost any circumstances.
Professor Rowan thinks that both sexes indulge in this song.
William Rowan in his notes refers to it as a scarce, but regular, spring migrant in Alberta; his dates are between April 29 and May 29.
Red Rowanenters from the right, a wild, picturesque young figure in a scarlet cloak.
He planted a rowan tree by his porch when he was first inducted into the manse, and it has grown up with him and he loves it as if it were a human being.
But I dinna mind telling you," he added, "that I'd as lief talk with my rowan tree.
Why is the mountain ash, or rowan tree, seen growing in almost every garden, when not another tree adorns the landscape or shelters the family dwelling?
There was not an old horse-shoe nailed to one of their doors; no rowan tree lay above either door or window lintel; and the cattle were permitted to feed on the hill-side, without red thread tied round their tails.
But when I came up they decided that the wild hops were over, and there were no rowan berries left now, nor any richly coloured leaves.
I stole away up to the big ant-heap in the wood and watched the insects as long as I could see; afterwards, I sat listening to the falling cones and clusters of rowan berries.
With his left hand he swam slowly, or kept his equipoise in the water; with his right he guided the heavy rowan bough.
If, perchance, any one else saw, he or she would never guess that those derelict rowan branches shrouded Sheumais Achanna.
In Oriente Lieutenant Rowan was more successful, owing to the fact that few Spanish forces remained in that province.
Lieutenant Rowan reported to Washington that Garcia was able to put 8,000 efficient troops in the field, and presently considerable supplies were sent to him with little difficulty.
Rowan was sent to Oriente, and Lieutenant-Colonel J.
He has also found specimens at Bush Hill Park and Forty Hill, near Enfield; Rowan Tree Farm, Lower Edmonton, and between Edmonton and Winchmore Hill.
The declining year brings fresh glories; all these colours are now modified and chastened; the rowan trees grow scarlet, the weeping birches become like fountains of gold, and the oaks a brilliant brown.
The immediate foreground is softened by the natural woods of birch, oak, and rowan round the bases of Craig Tollie and of the lower hills on the east side of Tollie farm.
From an eminence on a spur of the Rowan Tree Hill, you at last look down on Loch Fionn.
They came back to the house, and Murrish the Cook-woman was pleased when she heard from Ardan that they found no ivy leaf and saw no rowan berry that was as big as her barley loaf or her pat of butter.
They went east and they went west, they went towards the north and towards the south, but no ivy leaf did they find that was as big as a barley loaf, and no rowan berry did they see that was as big as a pat of butter.
And I believe you when you say you saw an ivy leaf as big as my barley loaf and a rowan berry as big as my pat of butter.
Tell her," said Little Fawn, "that often I saw a rowan berry that was bigger as her pat of butter.
Witchen or quicken, old English names of the rowan or mountain ash.
On account of its reputed power against the 'feorin,' a rowan tree was almost invariably planted near the moorland or mountain side farm-house.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rowan" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
