Either she or Tom was always at home, and for my part I watched the shrike carefully and found he did not fly near the nest of the titmice at all.
He killed the titmice children this morning, and ate two of them, and stuck the other four upon a thorn bush,' explained the judge.
Titmice always see to it you are not lonely as you walk through the woods.
The titmice or chickadees (ParinA|) are fluffy little gray birds, the one crested, the other with a black cap.
Titmice and nuthatches, which have many similar characteristics, are often seen in the most friendly hunting parties on the same tree.
Because the titmice are permanent residents, they occupy all of the available habitat throughout the year.
Hence titmice suffer intense intraspecific competition, which shortens the survival of adults.
In contrast, songbirds with large clutches, such as the titmice studied by Kluyver (1951), produce a large number of young with whom they and other adults must compete for food during the winter period of food shortage.
An ecological analysis of the interbreeding of Crested Titmice in Texas.
Black-crested Titmice intermediate between atricristatus and dysleptus were listed from Cuidad Múzquiz and Sabinas by Dixon (loc.
The titmice had been flying back and forth from the hen-yard with chicken's feathers, and it seemed such slow work for them I thought I would help them.
THEY picked out their crack in the oak and began to build without any advice from me, winning little gray-crested titmice that they were.
The titmice or chickadees (Parinae) are fluffy little gray birds, the one crested.
Our titmice all make their nests in holes in trees and stumps, usually taking possession of the last year's home of a woodpecker.
Several other kinds of titmice are also found in the British Isles, of which the great tit, the cole-tit, and the blue tit are plentiful almost everywhere.
They almost outdo the Titmice in the amazing variety of their postures.
In habit the Nightingale is peculiarly alert and quick, not restless in a petty way, like the fidgety Titmice or the lesser warblers, but putting a certain seriousness and intensity into all it does.
In a bare orchard he was attracted by the sight of several blue titmice and two robins, feeding upon one or two odd apples that had been left unpicked at the very top of a tree.
Titmice nest in April so that you cannot tell the brothers and sisters from the father and mother when the troupe of acrobats leave the woods in {25} early autumn and whistle lustily about your home.
If you ever hear a troupe of titmice whistling Peto over and over again for hours at a time, you will pity poor Schumann and fear a similar fate for the birds.
When he awoke he lay there lolling and blinking, following the blue rovings of the titmice and listening to the foolish squabbles of the sparrows and the shrewish scoldings of the wrens.
The blue titmice flew over it in a flock again and again, with much sweet gossiping, but they did not venture nearer.
Feeding largely on the eggs or larvA| of insects particularly injurious to trees, the Nuthatches and Titmice are of great value to man.
The chickadees and titmice seem to be a sort of sentry for the company.
In a shady hollow, one day of early spring, a pair of tufted titmice were supplying the wants of a family of famishing children, and I invited myself to the family reunion.
It recalls to mind many of the motions which the smaller Woodpeckers and Titmice assume.
Whilst climbing among the foliage they will often hang like Titmice from the under part of a twig, but never retain this position for more than a very short time.
Blue Titmice are known to have selected the same quarters over a hundred years in unbroken succession.
Behavior and local distribution of tufted titmicein winter and spring.
Nail up fat pork, or large chunks of suet, on the south sides of conspicuous trees, and encourage the woodpeckers, nuthatches, chickadees and titmice to remain in your woods through the long and dreary winter.
Around the interior of the entwined sapling tops that formed the fatal bower of death there hung a semicircle of tiny cages containing live decoys,--chaffinches, hawfinches, titmiceand several other species.
Fat in any shape or form will attract the various species of titmice to the window.
Allied to the Titmice we also have the soberly arrayed little Creeper, and the more showy plumaged Nuthatch.
We have upon many occasions, during the twenty years or so that we resided in Sheffield, met with these waves of migrant Goldcrests and Titmice in the birch and alder coppices of the Rivelin Valley.
The Titmice are still leading a nomad life; but the Rook and the Starling seldom fail to visit their nesting-places each morning.
These trees are a favourite resort of Redpoles, Siskins, and almost all the British species of Titmicebetween October and March.
Few woods in our experience more abounded with Titmice than the birch and alder coppices along the Rivelin Valley, especially in autumn, and invariably mingled with them at that season were flights of migrant Goldcrests.
Many Robins also pair; and theTitmice may be heard uttering their love-notes amongst the trees.
Amongst the fruit trees the Titmice and Flycatchers have their favourite nooks and crannies, and the Redstart has returned as long as we can remember to the hole in the old pear-tree.
It drags the Titmice out of their nest-holes and establishes itself there.
The Nightingales, formerly plentiful, have entirely forsaken this valley--the Titmice are lessening in numbers, and so on.
During the winter it associates with the Titmice and Fire-crested Wrens.
In spring the Titmice not only fight among themselves for the possession of these nest-holes, but also with the hosts of House Sparrows which strive to rob them of the holes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "titmice" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
