song-sparrows

Birds of passage -- song-sparrows, tanagers, bluebirds, and orioles -- even a pair of cardinals -- stopped wherever they could find a tree or bush from which to pipe a friendly greeting.

The Primrose Ring Ruth Sawyer 1925

Not only are the song-sparrows and robins singing, but the white-throated sparrows, who will, I suppose, soon leave us for the North, are still in full song, and this morning they waked us up at daybreak singing just outside the window.

Letters to His Children Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 1919

Not only song-sparrows and robins, but a winter wren, purple finches and tufted titmice are singing in the garden; and the other morning early Mother and I were waked up by the loud singing of a cardinal bird in the magnolia tree just outside our windows.

Letters to His Children Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 1919

Not only song-sparrows and robins, but a winter wren, purple finches and tufted titmice are singing in the garden; and the other morning early Mother and I were waked up by the loud singing of a cardinal bird in the magnolia tree just outside our windows.

Spring in Washington 1919

Not only are the song-sparrows and robins singing, but the white-throated sparrows, who will, I suppose, soon leave us for the North, are still in full song, and this morning they waked us up at daybreak singing just outside the window.

A New Puppy and a New Horse 1919

Yet there is such joy, accentuated on the second day by the fact that the thermometer has taken a sudden jump upwards, the snow is melting fast, and in the shrubs and evergreen hedge the song-sparrows are singing, and the robins.

Penguin Persons & Peppermints Walter Prichard Eaton 1917

Some blackbirds were calling sweetly in a clump of bushes, and song-sparrows sang as if they had but one hour in which to crowd the whole raptures of the spring.

The Junior Classics — Volume 8 Animal and Nature Stories William Patten 1902

In the calm brightness of winter sunshine, filling sheltered copses with warmth and cheer, you will watch the lingering blue-birds and robins and song-sparrows playing at summer, while the chickadees and the juncos and the cross-bills make merry in the windswept fields.

The Blue Flower 1902

A few blackbirds build, the white-throats stay late, but several varieties of swallows, the song-sparrows, and sandpipers remain and rear their broods.

An Island Garden 1894

The song-sparrows pour out their simple, friendly lays from bush and wall and fence and gable peak all about me.

An Island Garden 1894