United States or Comoros ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
"The foul fiend fly away with me, an' I love not the girl dearly," exclaimed the soldier, looking after her with admiring eyes, as like a red-winged butterfly she flew through the green bushes. "If I ever have the luck to get her, I shall have a dame strong enough to carry her part of our bundle.
Red-winged Blackbird edged away slightly. Skunks, he knew, would rather eat a bird than not. And he couldn't help wondering whether a Skunk Blackbird might be as dangerous. "Then some people do call you that!" he faltered. "Yes! But I don't care," Bobby Bobolink answered carelessly.
The cold draws all the birds of a species together. Dark hordes of clacking grackles pass by, scores of red-winged blackbirds and cowbirds mingle amicably together, both of dark hue but of such unlike matrimonial habits.
If I catch Bobby Bobolink there he'll wish he had stayed in the rice fields, down South." Mr. Red-winged Blackbird smiled. And he told old Mr. Crow not to worry. "Bobby Bobolink won't touch the corn," he said. "During the first half of the summer he lives on such things as caterpillars and grasshoppers, with a bit of grass-seed now and then." Old Mr. Crow replied that he was glad to know that.
He stands erect when he sings, and he has a rather long beak. The nest can be found, if you look for it, but is generally out of sight under a loosened clod of earth or tuft of grass. =Red-Winged Blackbird= The red-winged blackbird with his sweet call of "O-ka-lie," or "Ouchee-la-ree-e!" you will also find on the meadows and marshes.
The noise of automobiles passing along the highway, the rippling laughter of our little guide, or the gurgling melody of a red-winged blackbird scarce disturbed its peaceful slumbers. On the golden stillness of the hot mid-summer afternoon the almost imperceptible current seemed more sluggish still.
After the birth of his daughter, a tiny little elf whom Nanca has named "Red-winged Blackbird," he tried to run away, and the Indians killed him. Red-winged Blackbird! Keela then was the child of the artist! The old Spaniard in his gruff and haughty way has been kind to Grant and me. He's not well some obscure cardiac trouble from which he suffers at times most horribly.
"I was afraid you might take it into your head to eat me." Bobby Bobolink seemed to think that a huge joke. And he sang several humorous songs before he turned to Mr. Red-winged Blackbird and said: "I can tell you one thing. I'd rather be called a Skunk Blackbird than a Skunk Crow, any day!" In a clump of lilac bushes near Farmer Green's garden Mr. Catbird made his home.
"There's no doubt about it. Bobby Bobolink is here at last!" AS fast as they could fly, old Mr. Crow and Mr. Red-winged Blackbird hurried over to the meadow, where they had heard Bobby Bobolink's bubbling notes.
Meadowlark flew to the swampy place where the rushes grew, just to find a Red-winged Blackbird that he knew, in order to learn whether he had seen or heard the friend everybody was watching for. Perched upon a swaying last year's cattail, Mr. Red-winged Blackbird shook his head in reply. And he said that no doubt it would be a week before the looked-for arrival. "The season's a bit backward," Mr.
Word Of The Day