Whittier mentions the veery in "The Playmate": "And here in spring the veeries sing The song of long ago.
I have since found both species at Willoughby Lake, Vermont and the veerywith them.
The present season he arrived on the 6th--the veery with him; last year he was absent until the 8th; while on the two years preceding he assisted at the observance of May-day.
A few robins were about the hotel, and I saw a single veery in the woods, but the only members of the thrush family that were present in large numbers were the hermits.
That day his brookside singer became the Song-sparrow; the brown triller, the Veery Thrush.
The veery is distributed over the eastern portion of the United States during migration and breeds in the Northern States as far south as Pennsylvania, and in New England and Canada.
Besides fruit, the veeryeats a few seeds of grasses and weeds and a few of sumac, but none of the poisonous species were found in the stomachs.
A close inspection, however, of the fruit eating of the veery removes all doubts.
The veery was also a dancer, but in a different way.
Then, seeing that it was no one of whom he need be afraid, Veery came out from under some ferns to greet Peter.
Veery slipped out of sight, and almost at once his bell-like notes began to ring through the Green Forest.
Peter sat right where he was, content to just listen and feel within himself the joy of being alive and happy in the beautiful spring season which Veery was expressing so wonderfully.
The bluebird haunts the hollow apple trees, and of the thrushes proper the veery or Wilson's and the splendid wood thrush sing to their mates on the nests among the saplings.
The depths of a wood holds its undiscovered secrets; the mysterious call of the veery lends a wildness that even to-day has not ceased to pervade the old wood.
Is that Veery only visiting here, or will he build a nest?
But we do not need to see a Veery to know of his presence if we once learn his song by heart, because we shall remember it as long as our hearts beat.
Then Dodo nestled close to Olive and whispered, "I think thatVeery is singing his prayers.
At last Valentine Veery launched his small, cinnamon-colored body straight at Jasper Jay and gave him a sharp nudge with his wing.
And as soon as everybody had found a comfortable seat for himself, Valentine Veery said: "I'm glad to see we have a new member with us this evening; and I hope he will enjoy himself and sing his very best.
We'll try the song just once more," little Mr. Veery told them.
The veery will come early in the morning, and again at sundown, and perch above your tent, and blow his soft, reverberant note for many minutes at a time.
We had been making a visit to our veery nests, and on our way back noticed that the tanager was more than usually interested in our doings.
Henceforth, every morning we went up the veery road, and before each little nursery we sat us down to watch and study.
One more phase of veerycharacter I was surprised and delighted to learn.
Many such places existed in the woods, and I never passed one without seeking a nest; but always unsuccessfully, till, as June days were rapidly passing, I came to have a feeling something akin to despair when I heard the veery notes.
We were walking slowly down what we called the veery road in the woods, far over the other side from the cuckoo's nest, when we heard a very low but strange baby cry in some thick bushes.
My next interview with the veery family took place the following June, at the foot of Mount Greylock, in Massachusetts.
There I found our third veery nest, the mother bird sitting.
He was not in the least dismayed; he perched on a twig and looked over at me with interest, as if trying to see what the veery found so terrifying, and then continued on his way home.
From a side branch the veery poured his wonderful song, and the cheery little song sparrow uttered his message of good will for all to hear and heed.
So when I learned of my comrade's discovery I hastened at once to make the acquaintance of this, our fourth nesting-veery of the summer.
This latter may be the correct conclusion, and if so, her conduct was entirely different from that of any veery I have seen.
The song of the veerywas my morning and evening inspiration, but his shy brother had apparently taken his departure for parts unknown.
It was near the bottom of a deep gully, where I had come to grief in my search for a veery baby.
But on looking up the matter--for the bird student must aim at accuracy--what was my surprise to find that the Colorado ornithologists have decided that the veery thrush is not a resident of the State, nor even an occasional visitor!
If you have really seen that flower of the solitudes, you have seen the mossy rock overhanging it, the spruce cones lying thick about; sniffed the balsam and heard the veery on the mountain.
Throughout its life the veery seems to show a distrust of us that, try as we may, few have ever overcome.
It is veery interestin', and it was veery patriootic of him.
As we crossed the marsh, I heard the song of the olive-backed thrush, which sounds to me like a cross between the notes of the wood thrush and the strange harp-chords of the veery or Wilson thrush.
At first I thought the singer was the wood thrush, which, besides the veery or Wilson thrush, was the only one that I had supposed could be found in that Connecticut township.
She had come from the home of the wood thrush, where hermit and veery were unknown.
For me, the hermit voices the sublimity of the deep woods, while the veery expresses its mystery, its unfathomable remoteness.
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