He tells of the phoebe-bird that betrays her nest on the porch by trying to hide it with moss in similar fashion to the way all phoebe-birds hide their nests when they are built among rocks. ❋ Unknown (2010)
And grass, and white and red morning-glories, and white and red clover, and the song of the phoebe-bird, 5 ❋ Unknown (1900)
It is a small, delicately formed, weak-winged little bird, about the size of our phoebe-bird. ❋ William Temple Hornaday (1895)
Always the freshness and coolness, and always the delicate mossy nest of the phoebe-bird! ❋ John Burroughs (1879)
One season a phoebe-bird built on a projecting stone under the eaves of the house, and all appeared to go well till the young were nearly fledged, when the nest suddenly became a bit of purgatory. ❋ John Burroughs (1879)
The phoebe-bird is a wise architect, and perhaps enjoys as great an immunity from danger, both in its person and its nest, as any other bird. ❋ John Burroughs (1879)
The best beloved of them all is the phoebe-bird, one of the firstlings of the spring, of whom so many of our poets have made affectionate mention. ❋ John Burroughs (1879)
Its two syllables are like the calls of the first birds, -- like that of the phoebe-bird, or of the meadowlark. ❋ John Burroughs (1879)
It was a rapid mountain brook presenting many difficult problems to the young angler, but a very enticing stream for all that, with its two saw-mill dams, its pretty cascades, its high, shelving rocks sheltering the mossy nests of the phoebe-bird, and its general wild and forbidding aspects. ❋ John Burroughs (1879)
The notes of the phoebe-bird, the purple finch, the swallow, the yellowbird, the kingbird, the robin, and others, are rendered with perfect distinctness and accuracy, but not a word of the bobolink's, though the lark must have heard its song every day for four successive summers. ❋ John Burroughs (1879)
The robin, the bluebird, the song sparrow, the phoebe-bird, come in March; but these two ground-birds are seldom heard till toward the last of April. ❋ John Burroughs (1879)
Its relative, the phoebe-bird, builds an exquisite nest of moss on the side of some shelving cliff or overhanging rock. ❋ John Burroughs (1879)
While my house is yet surrounded by its scaffoldings, the phoebe-bird has built her exquisite mossy nest on a projecting stone beneath the eaves, a robin has filled a niche in the wall with mud and dry grass, the chimney swallows are going out and in the chimney, and a pair of house wrens are at home in a snug cavity over the door, and, during an April snowstorm, ❋ John Burroughs (1879)
By noon it begins to snow, and you hear the desolate cry of the phoebe-bird. ❋ Charles Dudley Warner (1864)
As they were looking at the evidences of the violent breaking up of winter, the first phoebe-bird of the season alighted in a tree overhanging the torrent, and in her plaintive notes seemed to say, as interpreted by John Burroughs, ❋ Edward Payson Roe (1863)
And grass, and white and red morning-glories, [1] and white and red clover, and the song of the phoebe-bird, [2] ❋ Walt Whitman (1855)
