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Updated: June 21, 2025
Assembling this latter material I found that when compressed with the hands its bulk was about the size of a baseball. Among the decaying leaves near the base of the nest three beetles and a small snail had found a home. The Veery, in common with a large number of other birds, builds a nest open at the top.
In English gardens green and bright, and rich in fruity treasure, I've heard the blackbird with delight repeat his merry measure; The ballad was a lively one, the tune was loud and cheery, And yet with every setting sun I listened for the veery.
Jean Cartier, his face blanched and his hair ruffled, appeared in the torpedo compartment, the picture of dismay. "It ees ze veery hard thing to breathe back there," he gasped, pointing over his shoulder toward the engine room aft. Almost immediately the boys forward could hear Commander Mcclure giving orders to open the reserve oxygen tanks.
"I hope you like my song," said Veery. "I love to sing just at this hour and I love to think that other people like to hear me." "They do," declared Peter most emphatically. "I can't imagine how anybody could fail to like to hear you. I came 'way over here just to sit a while and listen. Won't you sing some more for me, Veery?" "I certainly will, Peter," replied Veery.
Peter sat right where he was, content to just listen and feel within himself the joy of being alive and happy in the beautiful spring season which Veery was expressing so wonderfully. The Black Shadows grew blacker. One by one the little stars came out and twinkled down through the tree tops. Finally from deep in the Green Forest sounded the hunting call of Hooty the Owl. Veery's song stopped.
The books declared, and the specimens confirmed the statement, that the cradle of the tawny thrush would be found amid certain surroundings. Many such places existed in the woods, and I never passed one without seeking a nest; but always unsuccessfully, till, as June days were rapidly passing, I came to have a feeling something akin to despair when I heard the veery notes.
The spots on the Wood Thrush are the roundest and blackest; those on the Veery are the smallest, lightest, and most on the throat; on the Hermit they are longer and run together more like stripes; and those on the Olive-back are most like the Hermit's." The Olive-backed Thrush Length about seven inches the same as the Hermit. Upper parts an even olive color all over.
He begins to sing at dusk, and we usually hear his note soon after the Veery, the Philomel of our summer evenings, has become silent. His song consists of three notes, in a sort of triple or waltz time, with a slight pause after the first note in the bar, as given below: I should remark, that the bird usually commences his song with the second syllable of his name, or the second note in the bar.
"Now " said Valentine Veery "now everyone must keep very still while we have the pleasure of listening to Jasper Jay." Of course, after hearing the song repeated so many times, Jasper couldn't help learning a little of it. He began to bellow "Good-night, Ladies!" in the harshest, most ear-splitting tones he knew.
Four years passed, at first in search of the owner of the "wandering voice" that had bewitched me, and when I had found it to be the tawny thrush or veery, in study of the attractive singer himself, which made me an enthusiastic lover of him also. But the "shy and hidden" bird, the hermit, enthroned by those who know him far above the others, I had rarely seen and never clearly heard.
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