A solitary curlew called in the distance, but near at hand the liquid songs of the little reed-warblers fell thick and fast, like swift melodious raindrops.
Among the bamboos the reed-warblers poured out with pauseless haste those melodious but capricious lays in which many stolen goods are brought to light.
Nest: Nests of Lucy's warblers are usually located in tree cavities or under loose bark in willows, cottonwoods and mesquite.
ABOUT sixty species of Warblers are known to ornithologists, no one of which can be considered a great singer, but their several twitterings have a small family resemblance.
Where are the blue golden-winged warblers that sang daily on the edge of the wood opposite my windows, so that I listened to them at my work?
Red-bellied nuthatches were calling, and warblers uncounted were flitting about in the trees and underbrush.
Black-poll and Nashville warblers were especially numerous, as they are also upon Mount Washington, and, as far as I have seen, upon the White Mountains generally.
At the same moment three prairie warblers were chasing each other about the garden, now clinging to the side of the poles, now alighting on their tips.
Why go to a mountain-top to look at warblers and thrushes?
A flock of the willow warblers arose, sworled about us with manifold beating of little frightened wings.
A flock of the little willow warblers flung themselves across the valley, scolding and gossiping; a hare sat upright in the middle of the ancient roadway.
One afternoon, when the warblers were away foraging for the nest, the cowbird, now well feathered, had tried his wings a little, and had flown to a clump of tall weeds not far off.
The bird let loose in Eastern skies, Returning fondly home, Ne'er stoops to earth her wing, nor flies Where idle warblers roam.
Warblers then should be looked after nearly everywhere, among willows by the brookside, on the barren hill-tops which scarcely support a scant growth of pine or cedars, and on the blooming trees of orchards.
We saw the warblers and the cedar-birds gathering in flocks for their southward flight, the muskrats making their houses ready for the winter, and the porcupines dumbly meditating and masticating among the branches of the young poplar-trees.
The yellow warblers and the song sparrows were flitting about us; and two cat-birds and a yellow-throat were singing from the thicket on the opposite shore.
The black-throated blue warblers were common, and like most of their tribe were waiting upon offspring just out of the nest.
Having before spoken of the tendency of warblers to learn two or even three set tunes, I was the more interested when, last summer, I added another to my list of the species which aspire to this kind of liberal education.
The vireos, or greenlets, are akin to the warblers in appearance and habits, and like them are peculiar to the western continent.
Thirty-eight warblers are credited to New England; but it would be safe to say that not more than three of them are known to the average New-Englander.
But the most celebrated of the warblers in this regard is the golden-crowned thrush, otherwise called the oven-bird and the wood wagtail.
As it grew dark the crowd of warblers were still to be seen feeding busily, making the most of the lingering daylight.
During this shower ofwarblers the parula was the most numerous species, excepting, perhaps, the chestnut sided.
I noticed that the foliage was in livelier motion than is usually caused by an easy shower, and on closer examination discovered that the trees were fairly alive with flitting forms, birds--warblers in all their glory.
But the two reed-warblers always kept close together, as good sweethearts should.
The carp did the same; and the perch hung a nice nest of eggs in between the reeds where the warblers had built their nest.
Then the reed-warblers saw how he raised himself on his tail and split across the middle of his back.
The reed-warblers were mad with delight over their children and had no thought for anything else in the world.
When the reeds swayed in the wind, the nest swayed too, but that did not matter, for it was bound fast and reed-warblers are never seasick.
And the reed-warblers laughed and peeped down to see what on earth was going to come of it; and the youngsters were told as much of it as their little brains could take in, and they peeped too.
But the roach was gone, and presently the reed-warblers exclaimed: "Look!
The six reed-warblers sat in a row on the edge and were at their wits' end what to do.
On the evening of the same day a man stood at the edge of the pond, just where the reed-warblers lived.
The reed-warblers flew round the nest with loud screams: "The children!
The Reed-Warblers peeped down and beheld a cray-fish, who sat in the mud staring with her stalked eyes.
One sunny afternoon I watched with interest the likeness between a wood pewee, catching insects in the air, and a flock of Cape May warblers engaged in the same pursuit.
Some warblers seek this food in the tree-tops, and rarely descend; others feed on the ground and build their nests there.
The Cape May, the prairie, the myrtle and the magnolia warblers are the four yellow-rumped species--a most convenient mark of distinction.
Unlike the Warblers and Thrushes, which prefer secluded localities, the subject of our sketch delights in cultivated grounds, particularly where the apple and the pear abound.
About the time that the Warblers are beginning to make the woods and fields lively with their exhilarating songs and diversions, these loving, sympathetic beings, already mated, are beginning to look themselves out a home.
It was night, And long the warblers of the dale had sung Their last glad anthem to the dying day, And gone to slumber in the sylvan bowers Until the dawning of another morn.
Warblers as a family are less abundant than in some other parts of the British Isles.
Owing to the mildness of the climate it is not at all an unusual thing for a few chiffchaffs and willow-warblers to spend the winter in sheltered valleys on the south coast, instead of migrating to Africa in the autumn.
If it escapes the hungry warblers and vireos, there is still the army of goggle-eyed wasps and nervous ichneumons to circumvent.
In their dull, autumn colors the warblers have an unfamiliar look.
Warblers were nesting on the mountain slopes which would otherwise hardly have been found at that season this side of Canada, such as the black-throated blue, the magnolia and myrtle.
To many of the villagers the wood-lot is a remote and unfamiliar wilderness, and the warblers and vireos as unknown as any tropic bird.
Before we know it, the migration of warblers has begun and the keen ear detects their thin wiry notes.
The returning warblers rove in little bands, and companies of young field-and chipping-sparrows flit in and out among the bayberries and alight in the path.
I noticed the least flycatcher and the Maryland yellow-throat mothering young cowbirds, and many vireos and warblers so engaged.
Moreover, the intermittent utterance of a single bird proclaims the rate at which that bird is moving, and oftener argues for the passing of the smaller species, Warblers and the like.
On the dry side of the mountains the Warblers avail themselves freely of deciduous trees and bushes for nesting sites.
Warblers are such tiny creatures at best that Nature has given little thought to their protective coloration.
They are the most solicitous of all the Washington Warblers concerning their eggs, sometimes coming to meet the intruder as he climbs toward the nest.
Westerly, at least, he is among the first voices of springtime, and by the 10th of March, while all otherWarblers are still skulking silently in the Southland, this brave spirit is making the fir groves echo to his melody.
Lutescent Warblers abound thruout western Washington, and easterly, when the Cascades are well passed, as upon the Pend d'Oreille.
According to Mr. Bowles, Audubon Warblers evince a great fondness for their chosen nesting haunts, and will return to them year after year, often to the same tree, and sometimes to the same branch.
Sedge-warblers sing incessantly when first they come, but after they have been here for a little while are much less frequently heard.
They are also the summer residence of those Warblers which love reeds, and which abound much more on the reedier lakes of Biel and Neuchâtel.
The familiar pollards and thorn-bushes, where the Willow-warblers and Whitethroats were every morning to be seen or heard, are like so many desolate College rooms in the heart of the Long Vacation.
Of all the warblers I know, this is the most restless and difficult to observe when once the leaves are fully out.
In the former article under this title attention was paid to the warblers only.
In fact, the wood thrushes and warblers unmentioned are as finished vocal performers as any of those heard in the open.
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