Like all the waders of the marshlands, the Redshank is very voracious, and has an excellent stomach.
The spot upon which they had chosen to alight was the prominence terminating a little peninsula that protruded out almost to the bed of lilies, and from which the three waders had themselves descended into the water.
The long-legged waders and other water birds, unable to face it, throw themselves on the ground, and cling with claws and beak to the sand to escape being carried helplessly away.
Among the other waders are a snow-white heron, another ash-coloured, and a large white stork.
It is about the size of a duck, its legs being shorter, in proportion to its body, than those of waders in general.
He had been drawing on his waders and buckling on his creel.
The long hip waders she wore so briskly gave her the look of a modern Rosalind.
Afraid he's spoofing us," Kilmeny said with a laugh as he moved out in hiswaders against the current.
We have already described the archipelago of islets that lay far towards the eastern shore, and on which we had found the rare gulls, and such a variety of waders and other aquatic birds breeding (p.
Of waders and water-birds I was able to get only eleven kinds, and of these only three (including a rail confined to the damp summits of the islands) are new species.
Two of the waders are rather smaller than the same species brought from other places: the swallow is also smaller, though it is doubtful whether or not it is distinct from its analogue.
To one of these reefs I went as the tide was leaving them exposed, whilst flocks of Gulls and Waders were waiting for their evening meal.
Much yawning and silence amongst the lazy sportsmen sprawling in a variety of attitudes; caps thrown off their sun-scorched faces, waders peeled down to the ankles.
The time arrived for applied science, and cousin director bade the girls don those waders which they had clamoured to use even on the lawn, and come away to the stream.
I am prone to stumble, as we have seen, and somehow my tallest waders never take me through.
Illustration: "To put on a pair of waders like that in the front end of a canoe in a pouring rain is no light matter.
Furthermore, in the enthusiasm of the sport we had both of us more than once stepped beyond the gunwales of our waders and had our boots full of water, besides being otherwise wet.
There was no special difficulty in getting on the hat and coat, but to put on a pair of waders like that in the front end of a canoe in a pouring rain is no light matter.
At last a sudden eerie screaming broke out close ahead and Frank started and almost dropped his paddle as a second flock of wadersrose from the gloom of the bank.
Soon afterward there was a shrill scream as a flock of some of the smaller waders wheeled above their heads.
The resident species are indeed few, but there is no spot near London where anything like so great a variety of waders and water-fowl appear during the autumn and spring migrations, and in severe weather in winter.
Game-birds and waders often have portions of mud attached to their feet, and Mr. Darwin has proved by experiment that such mud frequently contains seeds.
Once, for experiment's sake, we followed, and the waders flopped along in manifest delight coaxing us up on shore and making off through the sagebrush with broken legs and useless wings.
It is a hardy bird and perhaps a lazy bird for it winters farther north than most of its tribe and makes shorter migrations than any of the waders that breed in Arctic regions.
The red phalaropes are the last of the waders to leave their Arctic breeding grounds, lingering until the lakes and shores are closed with ice, often well into October.
And during early April the migration became a veritable rush so that on the night of April 5, at Tucuman, the air was filled with the cries of these and other waders in steady flight northward above the city.
The birds were found in little flocks, often mingled with other waders that walked or waded through shallow water on muddy shores where they probed with their bills for food.
Mr. Manniche (1910) writes: The two phalaropes observed were evidently very much afraid of larger waders as for instance knots.
Notes on Alberta Waders included in the British List.
With the exception of the western sandpiper, this species is the most common of all the waders that winter on the coast.
The woodcock is the first of our waders to migrate north and one of the earliest of all our migrants, coming with the bluebirds and the robins, as soon as winter has begun to loosen its grip.
The flesh of the phalarope is a great delicacy, like that of other waders which occur in the regions in question, but which I cannot now stay to describe.
Along the farthest margin of the beach waders ran busily backwards and forwards in order to collect their food.
Almost wherever one lands, some small greyish brown waders are seen running quickly to and fro, sometimes in pairs, sometimes in flocks of ten to twenty.
In the company of the purple sandpiper there is often seen a somewhat larger wader, or, more correctly, a bird intermediate between the waders and the swimming birds.
These interesting waders are very abundant in some localities on the western plains.
These largewaders are found in moderately large flocks both in the interior and on the coast in the fall.
Professing ignorance of bridge, I begged my host to let me try the river, as, having been lately fishing on the Dee, I had my rods and waders with me.
And if Sunday fishing is allowed, do not give umbrage to many of the parishioners going to church by making a parade of your waders and fishing rod.
That is a pretty full list," commented Uncle Elk, "but it may be that Michael has some otherwaders in mind.
He was bareheaded, dressed in a white sweater, andwaders which reached his waist.
I promised Uncle Doc to put on my waders and keep dry for a few days yet, when I go to the woods.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "waders" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
