Miss Florence Merriam tells of having drawn a number of veeries about her by imitating their call-note, which is a whistled wheew, whoit, very easy to counterfeit when once heard.
Whittier mentions the veery in "The Playmate": "And here in spring the veeries sing The song of long ago.
Miss Florence Merriam tells of having drawn a number of veeries about her by imitating their call-note, which is a whistled wheew, whoit, very easy to counterfeit when once heard.
The voices of the veeries fell away, and then stopped, at quarter past eight, and at quarter of nine the first whippoorwill struck up, and was instantly answered.
The late veeries and robins were singing, and the warm fragrance of the apple-blossoms was all about us, as we gathered our treasures together and drove home in the dusk.
The Veeries are singing down by the river," said Olive to her father; "perhaps we had better go there before it grows dark.
For a minute the Veeries were silent; then from the tree over his head one sang a short tune--two sentences in a high key, then two a little lower and softer, like an echo.
They were late in nesting, for young veeries were out everywhere.
In such a secure place, among scattered old apple-trees, a pair of veeries had set up their household, surrounded and protected from every enemy who does not wear wings.
The pair of veeries in the maple bushes were never reconciled to our visits.
Veeries nested on its borders, woodpeckers haunted the dead trees at the edge, and all the birds of the neighborhood paid visits to it.
Kingbird and robins accepted the compromise and returned to their own affairs; but the veeries by turns fed the babies and reviled me from a tree near my retreat, till I took pity on their distress and left the orchard altogether.
My summer abiding-place in the Black River country was very near a bit of woods where veeries were plentiful, and I saw them at all hours, and under nearly all conditions.
I had found out what sort of places the veeries in this neighborhood liked.
Young veeries and bobolinks, song sparrows and warblers, who build low, apparently take leave of the nursery as soon they can stand up.
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