She threw herself against a summer warbler almost knocking him off his perch and, not content with this treatment, drew him from the lawn, which, by the way, was his own harvest field where he had gleaned diligently for several days.
Mr. Bremer says that in the summer of 1855, early in July, he obtained a nest of the myrtle warbler in Parsborough, Nova Scotia.
For ten minutes more her form was motionless though her head moved from side to side in a ceaseless surveillance--a warbler lunching in the next tree glanced casually in her direction, and was evidently just wild with curiosity.
This, in common with other warbler songs, cannot be well represented by a whistle, but rather by hissing or whispering the syllables between the closed teeth.
Were it not for the white spot or patch on the wing of both male and female at all seasons of the year and in all plumages, this warbler would easily escape the notice of all but the alert ornithologist.
One of the most interesting facts concerning this beautiful warbler is that, though not common, it is a winter sojourner, and therefore of perpetual interest to the student of birds.
The song of this warbler is variously rendered by the various writers upon bird songs.
Baskett, in his valuable "Story of the Birds," says that the warbler forms feed variously, but they use little vegetable matter.
From the attic window it was plainly visible, the cradled egg rocking in the wind, but, though the warbler was close by, to his credit be it said he did not once trespass upon other people's property.
The movements of this warbler are rather slow and leisurely, and, like a chickadee, it may sometimes be seen hanging head downward while searching for food.
The adult female myrtle warbler is similar to the male, but much duller in color.
It is one of the warbler songs that are easily recognized and not readily forgotten.
The blue-throated warbler repairs to Egypt in winter, from the south-eastern countries of Europe and western Asia.
But he (his musical finesse was such, So nice his ear, so delicate his touch) Made poetry a mere mechanic art; And every warbler has his tune by heart.
Will the sweet warbler of the livelong night, That fills the listening lover with delight, Forget his harmony, with rapture heard, To learn the twittering of a meaner bird?
Though a wood warbler it prefers the shrubby growths in low and well-watered places rather than the forest.
The nest of the Hooded Warbler is usually built in low shrubs, sometimes but a few inches from the ground and seldom higher than two feet.
This beautiful little warbler is a resident of the eastern United States.
Coues states that this warbler is a very common summer resident near Washington, the greater number going farther north to breed.
Of these the Kentucky warbler is by far the most interesting, though quite rare.
The black and yellowwarbler pauses a moment and hastens away; the Maryland yellow-throat peeps shyly from the lower bushes and utters his "Fip!
The Kentucky warbler is a large bird for the genus, and quite notable in appearance.
In summer he is one of those birds of the deep northern forests, that, like the speckled Canada warbler and the hermit-thrush, only the privileged ones hear.
Audubon found the black-poll warbler breeding in Labrador, and congratulates himself on being the first white man who had ever seen its nest.
Among the permanent summer residents here (one might say city residents, as they seem more abundant in town than out), the yellow warbler or summer yellow-bird is conspicuous.
A black and white creeping warbler suddenly became much alarmed as I approached a crumbling old stump in a dense part of the forest.
So, ere the warbler had finished his morning song, and while the dew was yet sparkling bright on the heath, we set out for that towering peak, “where snow and sunshine alone have dared to tread.
The little warbler sings as if the heart of melody has been broken on her tuneful tongue.
The common thrush often sings far into the night, and the sedge-warbler is a persistent caroller that has often been mistaken for the nightingale.
And the garden warbler is by no means found in every garden; probably I did not hear it more than twice.
Like its congeners, the garden warbler and the whitethroat, it sings with great emphasis and strength, but its song is silvern, not golden.
I listened till after midnight, and till the rain began to fall, and the vivacious warbler never ceased for a moment.
The song of the willow warbler has a dying fall; no other bird-song is so touching in this respect.
No voice of bird greeted me till the sedge-warbler struck up her curious nocturne in a hedge near by.
If the two kinglets could also be included in our common New England summer residents, our warbler music would only pale before the song of Philomela herself.
The blackcap warbler I found to be a rare and much overpraised bird.
Our next specimen may afford quite a contrast, for the yellow warbler occasionally finds it to her interest to extend the elevation of her dwelling to a remarkable height.
It is not known how many years or centuries it has taken the little warbler to develop this clever resource to outwit the cow-bird.
With them were a score or so of others of the greatwarbler family.
However, the warbler has one advantage--he is able to perch with perfect security on a twig, an accomplishment that has not yet been attained by his little brown cousin.
Kentucky and hooded warblers of their young, and that of the creeping warbler of its eggs.
The Kentucky warbler is fond of walking about on the ground in the woods, seeking for his favorite insects.
He has a decided advantage, however, over all his warbler kin, for he is not only gifted with the creeping talent, but is also just as dexterous as they in perching on a horizontal twig.
More than that, the nuthatch glides downward with more ease and in a straight line, and does not fling himself from side to side as the warbler does.
The warbler does not go scuttling straight down a vertical bole or branch as the nuthatch does, but swings his lithe body from side to side, as if he did not loosen the hold of both feet simultaneously but alternately.
In another hollow, on the same day, I watched a Kentucky warbler flitting about with a worm in her bill.
Presently a male Kentucky warbler appeared with a couple of large worms in his beak, and I made up my mind to find his nest if perseverance could accomplish that object.
He is the only warbler we have in eastern North America that makes a habit of scaling the tree trunks and descending them head downward.
What an enigma the Tennessee warbler for a long time remained to me!
His favorite dwelling places are in the pine woods of the south, where he is on the most cordial terms socially with the pine warbler and the red-cockaded woodpecker.
But for all this, however, it repairs to the shadier depths of the woods while the yellow warbler on the other hand seeks out the more tangled thickets and willow copses.
The yellow warbler seems to be the favorite host of this parasite, and something like a special instinct may have grown up in the warbler with reference to this strange egg.
So far as I know, no bird does eject this parasitical egg, and no other bird besides the yellow warbler gets rid of it in the way I have described.
This thing between the cowbird and the warbler has been going on for innumerable generations.
The warbler had excavated the site for her nest, dropped her egg into it, and then gone on with her building.
The warbler is much disturbed when she discovers the strange egg, and her mate appears to share her agitation.
All the other birds accept it as their own, but this warbler detects the imposition, and proceeds to get rid of the strange egg by burying it under a new nest bottom.
Take the case of the little yellow warbler when the cowbird drops her egg into its nest--does anything like a process of thought or reflection pass in the bird's mind then?
I once found the nest of the black and white creeping warbler in a mossy bank in the woods, and under the nest was an egg of the bird.
This bird is known to ornithologists as the ashy wren-warbler (Prinia socialis).
It is, however, possible to recognise the Indian wren-warbler by its note.
I am of opinion that something similar occurs when the ashy wren-warbler takes to its wings.
The Indian wren-warbler (Prinia inornata) weaves a nest quite as skilfully as the famous weaver bird.
The ashy wren-warbler is a common bird, so that most Anglo-Indians have a chance of investigating the mystery.
That first hooded warbler that I discovered and identified in a near-by bushy field one Sunday morning--shall I ever forget the thrill of delight it gave me?
One feels like thanking the Giver of all good that a little barefoot boy noted the warbler that spring day as it flitted about in the beeches wood.
When we shall walk together In Paradise, Most Dear, May it be warbler weather, Divine with flutterings Of exquisite wee wings, Our own familiar angelings That piped God's praises here.
The day before, a warbler had sat on the same branch which the yellow-throat now invaded, and the hummer not only did not offer to molest him, but flew away himself.
I have never observed any other warbler thus making free with human habitations.
A warbler entered the tree, and after a while ventured upon the branch where the hummer was sitting.
The thrush alighted in a tree and commenced singing, and the warbler sat by and waited, following the universal rule that a larger bird is never to be attacked except when on the wing.
This way my thoughts were running when all at once two birds dashed by me--a black-poll warbler in hot pursuit of an olive-backed thrush.
Almost the first specimen I saw was a Connecticut warbler perched in full view and exposing himself perfectly.
For fifteen minutes the Warbler brought forth this alien strain, Hee-o chiti wo, chu tip or Hee oo chitiwew chu tipew without once lapsing into ordinary dialect.
Warbler to Sparrow size; tree-creeping habits; black and ashy blue above; white below.
The tchip note of the Myrtle Warbleris indistinguishable from that of D.
Near Tacoma this Warbler places its nest at the base of a young oak or fir tree, where the spreading branches have protected the grass and gathered weeds.
This dainty little Warbler is one of the most characteristic and well distributed birds of western Washington.
Golden Pileolated Warbler (properly so-called, but the bird, because of its local abundance deserves the shorter name.
My impression is that the Pileolated Warblermust breed sparingly in eastern Washington.
