The tree selected for the nesting site is not necessarily close to water.
Occasionally in January a pair of hoopoes (Upupa indica) steals a march on its brethren by selecting a nesting site and laying eggs.
Currie found at Lahore a nest of these wagtails in a ferry-boat in daily use; so that the birds must have selected the site and built the nest while the boat was passing to and fro across the river!
After a site has been selected by a colony the birds return year after year to the place for nesting purposes.
The site chosen may be a bunker on the golf links, the butts on the rifle range, a low mud boundary between two fields, or any kind of bank.
The site selected is usually a small hole in the trunk of a mango tree that has weathered many monsoons.
In most cases the sitechosen is a clump of trees in a village which is situated on the border of a tank.
The nesting site is usually a ledge on some cliff overhanging water.
Of the landing of the first white man on the present site of Ushuaia, enough was told in the last chapter.
They naturally chose this "Christian settlement" as the site for the station.
It was an ideal harbor, and, after what had been said of it on board ship, there was no difficulty in recognizing it as the site of the capital of Tierra del Fuego.
Here there was a Roman station, on the site of which the castle was built, but by whom is not accurately known.
Here is the hermitage once occupied by Jersey's patron saint Elericus, and an abbey dedicated to him anciently occupied the site of the castle.
In the gardens, not far from the house, is the site of the old episcopal palace of Bishops Hatfield, of which one side remains standing, with the quaint gatehouse now used as an avenue of approach up the hill from the town to the stables.
The Parliamentary forces afterwards dismantled the castle, and it fell into decay, but it has recently been restored as well as possible, and the site converted into a public garden.
Hereford Castle has disappeared, but its siteis an attractive public walk overlooking the Wye, called the Castle Green.
On this hill was a castle of which little remains now but tracings of the ditches, larches and other trees peacefully growing on the site of the ancient stronghold.
The "Bloody Gap," another noted site in the castle, is between the Ravine and Round Towers.
A church is said to have been standing on its site and dedicated to the Benedictines as early as the seventh century, and it lasted until after the Norman Conquest.
The name of this interesting town is said to be derived from Beaver Lake, the site having at one time been surrounded by lakes that were formed by the overflowing of the Humber, in which beavers lived in great numbers.
His cell was near the present site of Stowe, where there was a spring of clear water rising in the heart of a forest, and out of the woods there daily came a snow-white doe to supply him with milk.
Many Roman relics have been discovered in the city, and at Knott Mill, the site of the giant Tarquin's castle, a fragment of the Roman wall is said to be still visible.
The present building occupies the site of the one he erected.
At the Crumlyn Bog, where white lilies blossom on the site of an ancient lake, legend says is entombed a primitive city, in proof whereof strains of unearthly music may be occasionally heard issuing from beneath the waters.
A fresh hut or shanty had very speedily been raised upon the site of the one destroyed by the fire, and Russell had resumed his old habits.
It stands upon the site of an ancient Indian settlement, all traces of which were soon obliterated by the progressive action of the pale-faces.
On the east, and nearly on the siteof the present sunk garden, a bowling-green was laid out by Charles the Second.
The structure then erected in all probability occupied the same site as the upper and lower wards of the present pile; but nothing remains of it except perhaps the keep, and of that little beyond its form and position.
From thence it is concluded that the ramparts ran along the east side of the upper ward to a tower occupying the site of the Wykeham or Winchester Tower.
On thesite of the old buildings rises a new business building.
St. Eloi's Church of Our Lady occupied the site of the present cathedral, but of the original structure no vestige remains, save perhaps the lower portion of the tower, and even this is doubtful.
His palace, called the Loove, which he himself had built, has long since been swept away; its site is now occupied by the Palais de Justice.
Charles's palace occupied the site of the present Palais de Justice.
Bertulph's house occupied the site of that portion of Government House which gives on the rue Breidel.
The first turning on the right leads, through a grove of sycamore and chestnut trees planted on the site of St. Donatian's, to the Place du Bourg, one of the loveliest squares in Europe.
Malay villages, brown and palm-thatched in the immemorial style, stand on piles above the swampy ground, which seems the approved site of habitation.
The party camped for the night within a few miles of the site of the present city of Missoula, Montana.
The wild, trackless prairie of Lewis and Clark's time is now the site of the thriving town of Great Falls, which has a population of ten thousand.
Nevertheless, as a matter of fact, the council took place on the Nebraskan or western side of the river, and the meeting-place was at some distance above the site of the present city of Council Bluffs.
Just above the site of the city of Yankton, and near what is still known as Bon Homme Island, Captain Clark explored a singular earth formation in a bend of the river.
On the twenty-first, Clark passed the junction of two streams, the Salmon and the Lemhi, which is now the site of Salmon City, Idaho.
The site of their new camp was at the southeast end of Baker's Bay, sometimes called Haley's Bay, a mile above a very high point of rocks.
They have passed the site of the present city of Lewiston, named for Captain Lewis.
Here the party came to the mouth of a large river which entered the Missouri from the northwest, at the site of the latter-day town of Ophir, Montana.
They were now on one of the upper branches of the Kooskooskee River, near what is the site of Pierce City, county seat of Shoshonee County, Idaho.
The camp was built on the site of an old Indian house, in a circle about thirty yards in diameter, near the river and in an advantageous position.
The party was now just westward of the site of the present town of Carroll, Montana, on the Missouri.
He would have been much more surprised if he had been told that a large city, the largest in Oregon, would some day be built on the site of the Indian huts which he saw.
At the confluence of the Kooskooskee and the Snake River they camped for the night, near the presentsite of Lewiston, Idaho.
Having found a good site for their winter camp, the explorers now built a number of huts, which they called Fort Mandan.
The deposit left by Neolithic man on the hill of Kephala averages about 6 metres in thickness below the later deposit which marks the occupation of the site by the post-Neolithic culture.
Evans secured a quarter of the Kephala sitefrom one of the joint proprietors, nothing of any real moment had been accomplished.
At all events, a very great and splendid building must have existed upon thesite at this time.
The type of the Minotaur itself as a man-bull was not wanting on the soil of prehistoric Knossos, and more than one gem found on this site represents a monster with the lower body of a man and the forepart of a bull.
The later stories of the grisly King and his man-eating bull sprang, as it were, from the soil, and the whole sitecalled forth a superstitious awe.
The Minoan burgher built his home as the requirements of his site and of his household suggested, and was not the slave of any fixed convention in the matter of plan.
He should therefore propose "Better Accommodation to the Old Company in the new Theatre, site unknown.
But a few months since there had been a depth of eighty fathoms, as was proved by sounding, on the site of this island.
Next he places him on thesite of the pile-built villages which once fringed the shores of Swiss and Italian lakes.
The building known at the present day as Winchester House, in Broad Street, stands near the site of the old mansion-house and garden of William Paulet, first Marquis of Winchester.
This having been successfully overcome and the site purchased, the next step was to invite subscriptions, not only from members of the livery companies, but from merchant adventurers beyond the sea.
The canons were now removed to another place and the building and site bestowed by Henry upon his chancellor, Sir Thomas Audley.
It was originally proposed to obtain from the Merchant Taylors’ Company a plot of land between Lombard Street and Cornhill, but the company refused to part with the property and a newsite had to be chosen.
The site of the house and gardens of the Augustinian Friars in Broad Street Ward was occupied, soon after their suppression (12 Nov.
If a vein is struck a second time it will be well to insert the needle through the abdominal wall at the site of the internal ring and if no vein is struck at this point an injection may be made.
It may be well to infiltrate the skin slightly at the site of the puncturing of the skin with the larger needle.
Strong pressure of truss making marked depression at site of internal ring.
If the injection of the canal at the site of the internal ring does not hold the hernia, reduce the same and make a puncture with a small needle through the external wall of the canal just above the external ring.
Should the operator throw in mixtures one and two until the parts are fairly distended and the hernia be not held it is better to use only the plain sterile vaseline for a subsequent injection at the site of the internal ring.
About forty minims thrown along canal and then puncture made atsite of internal ring and half dram diffused at this point.
If the hernia is at all large remember that the canal is shortened and select a point one-half or three-quarters of an inch nearer the pubes as the site of the ring.
Area at former site of hernia slightly more prominent than opposite side, no redness of skin.
If the needle is inserted about half an inch above the middle of Poupart's ligament it will be over the site of the normal internal ring.
A sitefor a concentration camp was chosen at Valcartier, nestling among the blue Laurentian hills, sixteen miles from Quebec, and convenient to that point of embarkation.
The Balkans have fierce hatreds and have been the site of sudden historic wars.
They stand on the site of the earliest nucleus of the present city, and it is in this neighbourhood that one gets most in touch with the Rouen that has so nearly vanished.
But you cannot help wondering whether he ever had misgivings over the unwelcome proximity of the chalky heights that rise so closely above the site of the ruin.
Alexander Fed'otch went down, and he discovered that the site was wanted by the Government for a new vodka-shop.
I thought of that when I rowed across the river Phasis, and drank coffee at Poti on the site of Colchis.
He is sprinkled with water from the well, is bound, and placed on the site of the altar for the night.
I would here draw attention to the site of St. Martin's Lane, and the adjoining district.
Of the siteof the third Bethlem Hospital a few words will suffice.
A considerable portion of this site is occupied at the present day by Liverpool Street, and the railway stations which have sprung up there.
The site of the institution is well chosen, covers three hundred acres, and commands an extensive and uninterrupted view.
Now Finsbury Circus and Square correspond to the site of a part of Moorfields.
Nor are those inserted which were built on the site of the church in the centre of the quadrangle.
After the Dog and Duck, this sitewas occupied by a blind school, pulled down in 1811.
On the site of the Mews stands now the National Gallery, and the house for lunatics must have been situated in Trafalgar Square, about where Havelock's equestrian statue stands.
The Parthenon has justly been called “the finest edifice on the finest site in the world, hallowed by the noblest recollections that can stimulate the human heart.
Had the piety of the monks left the alleged site of the Nativity in its original state, there would have been no presumption against it from its being a cave.
The prison was torn down in 1801, the old site now being used as a market-place during the week, and as a place for street-preaching on Sunday.
For centuries its very site was unknown, and even its name forgotten.
Among the monuments, if so it might be named, is a splendid water fountain which marks the site of the stake at which Savonarola was burned, in 1498, six years after the discovery of America.
AFTER a sojourn of ten days, I left Edinburgh, the site of Scottish nobility.
The writer has examined the site of this fort, just three miles above the falls of Rainy River, and seen the mounds and excavations still remaining.
The fort was soon rebuilt, but in its present beautiful situation on the eastern bank of the river, opposite the old site on Manitoulin Island.
Such was the first building, so far as we know, erected on the site of the City of the Plains, and which was followed first by Fort Douglas and then by Fort Garry, the chief fort in the interior of Rupert's Land.
The new site was very convenient for carrying on the overland traffic to Puget Sound.
The trader immediately landed, chose the site for his post, and found at a short distance tall and straight cedar-trees, which afforded material for the stockades of the fort.
Stuart had little confidence in Thompson, and by a device succeeded in getting him to proceed on his journey and leave him to choose his own site for a fort.
The impulse of union led to the construction of a new establishment on the sitechosen by the Hudson's Bay Company for the erection of their post some six years before.
Its ruins remain to this day, and the site is now taken up by the Canadian Government as a station on the way to the Yukon gold-fields.
This fort for a time was known as McLeod's Fort, but in the course of events its site was abandoned.
As we shall see afterwards, the building of this fort, which was on the site of the city of Winnipeg, had taken place in the year preceding.
It was thus on September 24th of that memorable year that the eyes of the white man first fell on the site of what is destined to be the great central city of Canada.
From the terminus in Minnesota the stage coach drawn by four horses, with relays every twenty miles, sped rapidly over prairies smooth as a lawn to the site of the future City of the Plains.
Gradually in this way site value would become the prevalent basis of assessment.
However, he changed his mind, and after a trip back East returned and, on a site noticed by the owner on his visit, built a grist mill on a small stream now called Washington's Run that empties into the Youghiogheny.
Then and later I visited all the farms, the site of the old mill, of which only a few stones remain, the mill stream, the fishery and old ferry landing.
Here is an application from Sir Craven Tollemache; he wants us to build him a house on any picturesque site near the shore, and contracts to take it on lease.
Two years later he was sent to South Africa, where for eight or nine years he labored among the natives earnestly and unostentatiously north of the place now famous as the site of the Kimberley diamond mines.
From Nimroud he went back to Mosul, and there opened the two mounds opposite of Kuyunjik and Neby-Yunus, the site of old Nineveh.
After Layard and Rassam, after Rawlinson and Botta, George Smith took flying trips to the site of Nineveh twice that he might gather the remaining fragments of the great library of Asshurbanabal, and he died in the field far from home.
There he would be free from the army of mischievous spectators that would swarm from Mosul, had he selected the site of Nineveh, and from the constant interference of the Turkish governor.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "site" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
