A water-wagtail comes now and then; sometimes the yellow variety, whose colour in the spring is so bright as to cause the bird to resemble the yellowhammer at the first glance.
The colour of the yellowhammer appears brighter in spring and early summer: the bird is aglow with a beautiful and brilliant yet soft yellow, pleasantly shaded with brown.
There were no chaffinches in the elms or in the road, and scarcely a sparrow; not a yellowhammer on the hedge by the cornfield; only a very few greenfinches; not a single bullfinch or goldfinch.
In its wild state theyellowhammer is found in all parts of Europe, and the north of Asia.
The yellowhammer is almost the longest of all the singers; he sits and sits and has no inclination to move.
A yellowhammer has just flown from a bare branch in the gateway, where he has been perched and singing a full hour.
The yellowhammer is the most persistent individually, but I think the blackbirds when listened to are the masters of the fields.
Seems like Cherokee would ramble down to Yellowhammer and see his friends," said another, slightly aggrieved.
Citizens who knew of families with offspring within a forty-mile radius of Yellowhammer came forward and contributed their information.
In Yellowhammer the empty storeroom had been transformed into what might have passed as the bower of an Arizona fairy.
The unblessed condition of Yellowhammer had been truly described.
On the twentieth day of December Baldy, the mail rider, brought Yellowhammer a piece of news.
The name of the father of Yellowhammer was given him by the gold hunters in accordance with their popular system of nomenclature.
Within an hour Yellowhammerwas acquainted with the scheme of Trinidad and the Judge, and approved it.
Cherokee's been gone from Yellowhammer over seven months.
The youngest kid we got inYellowhammer packs a forty-five and a safety razor.
Many citizens escorted him to the undefined limits of Yellowhammer and bestowed upon him shouts of commendation and farewells.
The men of Yellowhammer passed in and out restlessly or stood about the room in embarrassed groups.
Yellowhammer was made up of men who took off their hats to a smiling loser; so they invited Cherokee to say what he wanted.
Never afterward did he turn up enough dust in Yellowhammer to pay his bar bill.
Happily for him, we have not yet acquired the taste of the natives of Italy, where the Yellowhammer falls a daily victim to the delicacy of the table, and where its flesh is esteemed very delicious eating.
Yellowhammer was a new mining town constructed mainly of canvas and undressed pine.
The titlark and yellowhammer breed late, the latter very late; and therefore it is no wonder that they protract their song; for I lay it down as a maxim in ornithology, that as long as there is any incubation going on there is music.
The yellowhammer never makes a noise But flies in silence from the noisy boys; The boys will come and take them every day, And still she lays as none were ta'en away.
The sheep when hunger presses sore May nip the clover round its nest; But soon the thistle wounding sore Relieves it from each brushing guest, That leaves a bit of wool behind, The yellowhammer loves to find.
Up from behind the molehill jumps the hare, Cheat of his chosen bed, and from the bank The yellowhammer flutters in short fears From off its nest hid in the grasses rank, And drops again when no more noise it hears.
I fear the yellowhammer will not long remain in such a pandemonium.
The yellowhammer does not colonise with us; he goes and returns not, and this is now the last spot in the metropolis within four miles and a half of Charing Cross where he may still be found.
Here the skylark and yellowhammer may be heard, as well as the common resident songsters found in other open spaces.
They could hear the blue-jays snarling at one another, and the yellowhammer chuckling; on some dead tree a redheaded woodpecker hammered noisily, and if the boys had only had a gun with them they could have killed lots of things.
If you could bring home a yellowhammer you felt that you had something to show for your long day's tramp through the woods and fields, and for the five cents' worth of powder and five cents' worth of shot that you had fired off at other game.
The yellowhammer went on about himself—he was never tired of the subject.
They were near home now—it was late afternoon, in the road where the talkative yellowhammer lived.
So off they went, down the white road where the yellowhammer was talking about himself as usual on the tree just beyond wherever you happened to be walking.
Far away in a copse a wood-pigeon called; nearer the blackbirds were whistling; a willow wren uttered his note high in the elm, and a distant yellowhammer sang to the sinking sun.
A yellowhammer was invited; he was a rollicking blade, and there was nobody to match him at singing a comic song.
A yellowhammer answered him in a cross voice-- "Third tree to the left in the next orchard!
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