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Updated: June 22, 2025
It opened with a peculiar call, and its object was to rouse the young to follow. So remarkable was the effect upon them that I have no doubt a mob of kingbirds could be brought together by its means. It began, as I said, with a call, a low, prolonged cry, sounding, as nearly as letters can express it, like "Kr-r-r-r! Kr-r-r-r!"
Close before me was a beautiful hawthorn-tree, in which a pair of kingbirds had long ago built their nest.
But Cock Robin scolded and sputtered and called him mean names; and the louder he talked, the more excited all the other birds in the neighborhood became. Before long there were twenty angry kingbirds and sparrows and other feather-folk, all threatening to do something terrible to Solomon.
"bring not The fancies found in books, Leave author's eyes, and fetch our own." Nearly two months that small dwelling on the oak was watched, day after day, early and late, in storm and in sunshine; now I know at least one family of kingbirds, and what I know I shall honestly tell, "nothing extenuating." The house was built, the season was passing, yet housekeeping did not begin.
If genuine, then, they hint the scope and quality of Hawthorne's perceptions during a few years antecedent to his college-course, and whether his own work or not they picture the sort of life which he must have seen at Raymond. "Two kingbirds have built their nest between our house and the mill-pond. The male is more courageous than any creature that I know about.
"They are taking the babies for a sun-bath," whispered Jane. The muffled hammering of a woodpecker, building its nest, came from a hollow tree at a little distance. A flock of kingbirds dashed boisterously through the underbrush. The pewees began their pitiful cry of "Lost! lost!" a scarlet tanager sat like a sentinel on a dead branch and challenged them with a sharp single note.
I greatly wished to stay and see the result, for I had confidence enough in the bravery of the kingbirds to be sure that the end was not yet. Also, I longed to watch the restless pair whose ups and downs I had found so interesting. I should like to see the orchard oriole in the rôle of a father; a terribly fussy one he would be without doubt.
With true robin persistence she did not give it up, and she selected for her next call the dusk of evening, just before going to bed. This time both kingbirds flung themselves after her, and she left, "laughing" as she went.
Then he has two raccoons, several pigeons, kingbirds, quails, two young eagles, and a fox, all undergoing a thorough system of training. But his favorite pets are a pair of kingbirds and a crow, which are allowed to run at large all the time. They do not live on very good terms with each other.
They were passing along lanes now, between superb fields of corn, wherein plowmen were at work. Kingbirds flew from post to post ahead of them; the insects called from the grass. The valley slowly outspread below them. The workmen in the fields were "turning out" for the night; they all had a word of chaff with McTurg. Over the western wall of the circling amphitheater the sun was setting.
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