a-bird's-nesting

Updated: August 10, 2026

He saw his mother's fat white ducklings creep in and out under the gate, and waddle down to the little pond at the back of the yard; he saw the school house that he had hated so much as a boy, and from which he had so often run away to go a-fishing, or a-bird's-nesting.

Olive Schreiner - Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland