A nasal peent or paip; a whistling of wings and a twittering whistle.
Call, a tseep, tseep; song, an unmusical, twittering warble sung during soaring flight.
Both twittering birds bring the materials while it is damp, if possible, and place it, but being very timid, they work little while an observer is near.
In their white muslin frocks, white shoes and stockings and gloves, white veils and coronets of white flowers, they were twittering away as merrily as the little birds that were singing unseen in the leaves above them.
The birds that had been silent began their twittering again, the squirrels took up their exploration among the tree tops, scolding and chattering as they went.
There is nothing very terrible in the twittering of birds; yet how ominous sound the voices of those innocent feathered warblers in the dread pauses of a storm!
He was silent; and the slow trampling of the horses' hoofs along the lane, and the twittering of some dissipated bird far away in the dim woodland, were the only sounds that broke the evening stillness.
Then in the sunny mornings, too, there is the twittering of the swallows.
Yesterday at this time I was sitting in poor Robert Lambert's whitewashed attic, listening to the sparrows that were twittering under the eaves.
The striped sun-blinds had been lowered over all the windows, thrushes and blackbirds were twittering on the lawn, the air was sweet with the perfume of flowers, a boatman was busy with the boats.
In the stony niche crouched a stray cat watching the twittering sparrows.
And thus, always accompanied by the hum and the twittering of a melancholy music, they went on towards the lake.
From outside the station came the perpetual twittering of women.
The Cigarette remarked facetiously that he thought I was "taking exercise" as I drew near, until he made out for certain that I was only twitteringwith cold.
During the whole of their feeding time, they never cease twittering and fluttering about joyously from twig to twig.
Richardson, the Arctic traveller, informs us that he one day saw a flock, consisting of three or four hundred birds, alight on one or two trees in a grove of poplars, making a loud twittering noise.
Their note I have never heard, but the proprietor of the orchards assured me that he had often detected their presence by the low twittering noise which they made, a description the truth of which a writer quoted by Yarrell confirms.
The sunshine showers across the grain, And the bluebird trills in the orchard tree; And in and out, when the eaves dip rain, The swallows are twittering ceaselessly.
A prettier sight is that of a couple of martins resting side by side at the orifice of the nest hole twittering lovingly to one another.
The birds utter unceasingly, when on the wing, a twittering note, not so harsh as that of the sparrow, but sufficiently harsh to make it appear that the birds are squabbling.
Such a twittering and fluttering as went on while they talked the matter over, asked many questions, and admired the pretty little creature who only knew her name and nothing more!
It breaks the stillness of the woods with a sort of challenge to the gay fields beyond, like the call of the muezzin from the minarets of the mosque--a summons to all twittering sparrows and chattering squirrels to be silent and listen.
The importunate twittering of young birds with their speckled breasts and half-grown tails is in evidence; they at least do not hesitate to make themselves known.
April brings the twittering of tree-swallows, and spreads a tinge of color like a faint red mist over the swamps.
Perhaps it was the simple home charm of the surroundings, the soft drowsy hum of the gas pump, the twittering of the dentists in the trees--did I say the trees?
You may hear the first swallow twittering from the sky above you, or the first mellow drum of the grouse come up from the woods below or from the ridge opposite.
Its twittering call and chirrup coming out of the white obscurity is the sweetest and happiest of all winter bird sounds.
And the soundness of my sleep is such that time does not exist between their last crepuscular squeak and the first wiry twittering of a blue tanager, in full sunshine, from a palm overhanging my beach.
Nay, the birds themselves seemed to enjoy the sport, and to deride his want of skill, skimming in circles close to the balconies, and twittering as they darted by.
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