And after April, when May follows, And the whitethroat builds, and all the swallows-- Hark!
Now willowy reeds tune their silver flutes As the noise of the day dies down; And silence strings her lutes, The Whitethroat to crown.
Four Young Of Whitethroat The whole collected by the Curator at Aylestone, August, 1883.
Another girl had heard a nightingale on her way to school that morning, and directed me to the road; still another pointed out to me the whitethroat and said that was my bird.
The whitethroat is much more famous; it has a louder, coarser voice; it sings with great emphasis and assurance, and is a much better John Bull than the little willow warbler.
The redstart yonder has given forth a few notes, the whitethroat flings himself into the air at short intervals and chatters, the shrike calls sharp and determined, faint but shrill calls descend from the swifts in the air.
So, too, thewhitethroat in the wild parsley; so, too, the thrush that just now peered out and partly fluttered his wings as he stood to look.
The thicker the undergrowth of nettles and wild parsley, rushes and rough grasses, the more the whitethroat likes the spot.
The Whitethroat is by no means so common in the Channel Islands as it is in England, and though a regular summer visitant it only makes its appearance in small numbers.
The Lesser Whitethroatis included in Professor Ansted's list, and only marked as occurring in Guernsey.
Like the Whitethroat, the Lesser Whitethroat is a regular, but by no means a numerous summer visitant to Guernsey.
The Whitethroat has hitherto perhaps been better known by the name used in the former edition of 'Yarrell' and by Messrs.
The whitethroat was sending out his "silver arrows of song" clearly and pensively from the depths of the velvet dusk.
If the whitethroat eggs were taken from the nest and placed among particoloured pebbles such as are common on some shores, it would need care to distinguish them.
The whitethroat frequents the hedge and ditch, and there weaves its slender nest.
Country boys set some value on the eggs of the nettle-creeper or whitethroat because the nest is difficult to find, and the eggs curiously marked.
The green caterpillar swings as he spins his thread and lengthens his cable to the tide of air, descending from the tree; before he can slip it the whitethroat takes him.
You might as well suppose that the whitethroat is aware that nettles will sting the human hand approaching its nest as that eggs are especially adjusted in colour to deceive human eyes.
A whitethroat was catching insects in the garden on May 6.
Another whitethroat follows immediately, and there is not a leaf forgotten nor a creeping thing that can hide from them.
Of the nidification of the Lesser Whitethroat within our limits, I only know that it was found in May, breeding abundantly in Cashmere in the lower hills, by Mr. Brooks.
The Whitethroat is in England the most common of all the migratory warblers, and is generally diffused.
The Whitethroat lays four or five eggs of a greenish-white colour, spotted with brown and gray, the spots sometimes form a zone or belt round the larger end.
The situation chosen by the Lesser Whitethroat for its nest is amongst brambles, low bushes, and nettles, building it of grass, bents, and an inner lining of horsehairs.
Secondly, the head of the lesserWhitethroat is of a much darker bluish-gray tint.
Although the Whitethroat is plentiful in the southern counties, I do not find that people, as a rule, are at all familiar with its appearance, and I imagine this arises from the shy habits of the bird.
Very naturally some readers may ask, “How can they obtain a tame, happy little pet bird such as my whitethroat now is?
The Whitethroat is migratory, and so exposed to many dangers.
Thrush, Blackbird, and Robin sing fitfully, as also do the Blackcap and Whitethroat and many others.
Gaetke speaks of the absence of song on the Island of Heligoland, and refers to the Whitethroat as one of the few migrants that enliven that desolate rock with their melody.
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