mistle-thrushes

Updated: May 14, 2025

He had to look for his acorns or his beechmast by the good old domestic-fowl plan of scratching among the leaves; roots also he was forced to scratch for; and the noisy mistle-thrushes with the tempers of Eblis had to be driven off the berries he would look after in the ditch. Also, there was a stoat. That stoat, however, tackled him just once.

F. St. Mars - The Way of the Wild