A company of starlings went with them to act as couriers and carry intelligence.
Presently the starlings on the chimney began to quarrel, and had a terrible set-to.
Still more starlings rushed overhead, and Bevis waved his hand to them, but it was no use.
Hundreds of starlings were chattering in the fir-trees, and flying round the branches with incessant motion.
Starlings (introduced into North America from European stocks of S.
There are no specimens taken in the breeding season or actual nesting records from southwest of Ellis and Stafford counties; Starlings seem to be resident in Cheyenne County, but no nesting record exists from there.
Folk went about their tasks reluctant, the very smoke of the chimneys loitered lazily round the ridges where the starlings chattered, and a haze was almost ever over the hills.
As the hawk Swift-wing'd before him starlings drives or daws, So thou, Patroclus, of equestrian fame!
When the second summer of Richard's life came round, some youngstarlings were obtained, as we much wished to rear a hen as a mate for Richard in the following year.
I saw a group of starlings in a beech tree near by, and another set were chattering on the house roof, but there was no telling if my Richard was one of them.
Blackbirds and thrushes are very fond of Sultana raisins; they also like split groats and brown bread crumbs, as also do starlings and, I believe, most of the smaller birds.
Early the patient rooks andstarlings gathered; Any warm narrow place for men was home.
Still the ash is asleep, Or from his lower upraised palms now creep First green leaves, promising that even those gaunt Tossed boughs shall be the haunt Of Autumn starlings shrill Mid his full-leaved high branches never still.
In the third or fourth week of February the rosy starlings of Bombay begin to form flocks.
The pied starlings have become comparatively subdued, their joyful melody is no longer a notable feature of the avian chorus.
Thus the rosy starlings reach Allahabad about the second week in March, and Lahore some fifteen days later.
The pied starlings are in full voice; their notes form a very pleasing addition to the avian chorus.
The Indian cuckoo no more raises its voice in the plains, but the pied crested-cuckoo continues to call lustily and the pied starlings make a joyful noise.
Rosy starlings feed chiefly in the morning and the late afternoon.
This exodus is usually preceded by the gathering into flocks of the rose-coloured starlings and the corn-buntings.
Rose-coloured starlings spend most of their lives in the plains of India, going to Asia Minor for a few months each summer for nesting purposes.
May marks the commencement of the breeding season of the pied starlings (Sturnopastor contra).
Numbers of rosy starlings are returning from Asia Minor, where they have reared up their broods.
The sparrows are driven off, and the starlings remain in full possession.
The starlingshave a merry time of it; and, when winter comes, all they have to do is to fly southward.
The flakes descend on their black coats; and the starlings come out from their little house, and look about to see what's the matter.
In these sudden and sharply localised movements we have, perhaps, fresh evidence of that division into smaller bodies, which may, possibly, underlie all great assemblies either of starlings or other birds.
Besides, I have seen the starlings at work in their vaults, and the latter growing from day to day.
This I know, that starlings have hearts even in winter.
When roosting, starlings seem to eschew trees that are at all larger than saplings, or whose tops project much above the level of the undergrowth.
That starlings eat a certain amount of orchard fruit is true--that is a more showy performance than the constant, quiet devouring of grubs and larvæ.
Then down with the starlings who do it, for what good are the starlings to them?
It is usually stated that starlings fly, together, in silence, but besides the special note I have mentioned, and which is totally unlike any of their other ones, they often make a more ordinary twittering noise.
But whilst there is no mistaking the last, this note of the starlings is of a very elusory nature, and I have often been puzzled to decide whether it was, indeed, vocal or only caused by the wings.
Ever since I came to live in the west of England, I have watched the starlings as opportunity presented, and I believe, of all birds, they are the greatest benefactors to the farmer, and to agriculture generally.
Maisie's eyes were fixed on the grass-plot beneath the window, where a company of starlings were busily engaged digging for worms and grubs.
Myriads of starlings were screaming and wheeling in the sky.
Also received a gift of three brace of starlings that are the veriest God-send for the seedy.
As the starlings swept down with rushing wings to their nightly abiding-place, the hawks would glide from their perches, and swooping amongst them, break and turn the advancing host.
Chivied perpetually by the hawks, and fairly scared out of their wits, the little band of starlings swept round this desert throne, and finally settled in a black throng all round the mighty bird himself.
Under the corner of the next roof two starlings were busily engaged in nest-building.
All together they sang the song of Love and of Springtime, while, on the house-tops in the town, the starlings mocked them all.
At the same time that there were so many in Guernsey, Starlings were reported as unusually numerous in Alderney, but how long the migratory flocks remained there I have not been able to ascertain.
It is probable that this use of the bird for sport caused people to eat it, and so common did the habit become that at the end of summer, or before the end, shooting starlings for the pot was practised everywhere.
He caught starlings still, but what was the good of that?
At such times the birds in their sodden plumage looked like drowned starlings fished out of a pool and galvanized into activity.
Rooks and starlingswould immediately fall to work, while the daws, the flock breaking up into small parties of three or four, would distribute themselves about the village and perch on the chimney-pots.
Gentlemen used to shoot starlings at matches; and if you had the making of a bird to shoot at, you couldn't get a better than the starling--such a neat bird!
Thrushes seek for worms in moist grounds about the woods; starlings and rooks go to the pasture lands; the lark and his relations keep to the cultivated fields; and there also dwells the larger partridge.
So too, in watching the starlings day after day in the field in front of my window.
The starlings were the worst robbers: if you didn't scare them they would strip a tree and even an orchard in a few hours.
Now and again the locusts try to escape and the starlingspromptly put them to death.
The legend is probably based on the fact that both the starlings and the locusts come from the Hills, and about the same time.
The people prayed to Narayana, and he imprisoned them in a deep valley in the Himalaya, putting the starlings to keep them in confinement.
This part of the garden was let to some shopkeepers of the town, and it was protected from thieves and starlings by a feeble-minded peasant who lived in a shanty in it.
I was continually running to the river to see whether the ice were not going; I kept fancying that starlings were flying.
He cut off a large slice from the loaf, but when he got out of doors, where the birds were chirping so merrily and the starlings were so tame, he cried out: "Here!
The starlings up in the tree could not out-chatter these people.
My little pitchman says: "Swallows and starlings come and go in the night.
He remembered a passage about starlingswritten by a strenuous big-game hunter, who yet had the air-magic in his blood.
Stars and starlings are the same one thing, only differently expressed.
Now a dozen or more fussy starlings have arrived for their breakfast, and eagerly pick up the coarse oatmeal, which seems to suit the requirements of most birds when they cannot get their own special diet.
Starlings are good emblems of perpetual motion—cheerful, busy creatures, they never seem to have a minute to spare, and make so much ado about both work and play that they are amongst the most amusing of the visitants to my window.
It was a pleasure to go out again to see the thrush standing up stiff and alert on the green turf in the old way, and the speckled starlings scattered about and once more busily prodding the turf.
At one house, I was told, numbers of thrushes and starlings crowded on the window sills, and some of them that were stiff with cold were taken in but were found dead in the morning.
A very large number of cranes and wild geese and crows and starlings live on what is sown, and for all this, when they come to sow for another year, the fields are covered with corn which they have not been able to finish gathering.
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