high-holders

Hunting parties from Brooklyn often traveled the Flatbush Toll Road on weekends to traipse the marshes, woodlands, and fields of Flatbush for duck, high-holders, woodcock, snipe, and quail.

MY EMPIRE OF DIRT Manny Howard 2010

Hunting parties from Brooklyn often traveled the Flatbush Toll Road on weekends to traipse the marshes, woodlands, and fields of Flatbush for duck, high-holders, woodcock, snipe, and quail.

MY EMPIRE OF DIRT Manny Howard 2010

Hunting parties from Brooklyn often traveled the Flatbush Toll Road on weekends to traipse the marshes, woodlands, and fields of Flatbush for duck, high-holders, woodcock, snipe, and quail.

MY EMPIRE OF DIRT Manny Howard 2010

Hunting parties from Brooklyn often traveled the Flatbush Toll Road on weekends to traipse the marshes, woodlands, and fields of Flatbush for duck, high-holders, woodcock, snipe, and quail.

MY EMPIRE OF DIRT Manny Howard 2010

When we listen to the warble of bluebirds, watch the mock courtship of the high-holders, and discover the fall violets under leaves and burrs, for an instant a feeling of spring rushes over us; but the yellow leaves blow against our face, the wind sighs through the cedars, and we realise that the black hand of the frost will soon end the brave efforts of the wild pansies.

The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year William Beebe 1919

Yes, and there are some high-holders in the orchard also.

Nature's Serial Story Edward Payson Roe 1863

In the hollows of the meadow at her feet were glassy pools, kept from sinking away by a substratum of frost, and among these migratory robins and high-holders were feeding.

Nature's Serial Story Edward Payson Roe 1863

"high-holders" and the chirp of cheerful robins brought back with a rush, all the sweet, associated memories of other springs and other gardens, making my gold-seeking expedition seem not only chimerical, but traitorous to my duties.

A Daughter of the Middle Border Hamlin Garland 1900

I once put my hand in a hole for high-holders 'eggs, and a big black-snake ran down my back, but not inside of my coat, however. "

Nature's Serial Story Edward Payson Roe 1863