Throstles will sometimes sing continuously all the winter through, and early in the year I have listened most carefully to catch the notes of their bigger brothers, but only very seldom with success.
I find a note that once I saw throstles join with starlings in their raid upon elder-berries, but I have seen nothing since to confirm this.
Song-thrushes, or throstles as they are called in Cheshire, are always plentiful, but not always to the same extent.
Before the severe cold began throstles were plentiful; after it had continued for a few days not a single one was to be seen; but when the thaw set in, in less than a week they abounded again on every side.
Whilst most throstles seem to like as high a perch as possible to sing from, I remember one that habitually poured forth the flood of his melody raised above the level of the ground by a clod of earth only.
And the breakfast with the throstles and the lady's-slippers?
The starlings whistled on the chimney stacks, and the throstles and robins sang--but they sang their own little noises, not the words they had sung in the night.
One misses the climbing roses of the ideal merry England, and the soft turf and spreading yews and the flowering hedgerows where throstles and linnets play hide-and-seek the livelong day.
I hate your damned throstles and larks and bobolinks," said C.
The throstles nest there, an' the blackbirds whustle bonny.
The throstles and skylarks were shy of it, thinking it might be alive.
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