The tree-creeper is a little bird, of fearless disposition; it lives among trees, feeds on caterpillars, makes a living with ease, and has a loud clear note. ❋ Unknown (2002)
There's a pretty little bullfinch, and surely that's a tree-creeper on your apple tree -- not many of them about. ❋ Herriot, James (1992)
Have you ever heard a tree-creeper talking to itself? ❋ Douglas English (N/A)
I suspect it was not a mouse, but a bird, called, from its habit of running up trees, the tree-creeper. ❋ W. Houghton (N/A)
Hooded crows sailing over the uplands, and I met a flock of bright sweet goldfinches near some guns, and a tree-creeper in a copse. ❋ Keith Henderson (1932)
This species displaces the Himalayan tree-creeper in the Eastern Himalayas. ❋ Douglas Dewar (1916)
Another home-staying bird of the hedgerows, or rather of the hedgerow timber, is the tree-creeper. ❋ Unknown (1882)
This may be the case with covered nests made of soft materials, loosely put together; but it cannot be said of the solid structure the tree-creeper bnilds, and which, as often as not, the bird erects in the most conspicuous place it can find, as if, writes Azara, it desired all the world to admire its work. ❋ Unknown (1881)
One tree-creeper only, Furnarius rufus, the oven-bird _par excellence, _ has been mentioned, on account of its wonderful architecture, in almost every general work of natural history published during the present century; yet the oven-bird does not surpass, or even equal in interest, many others in this family of nearly three hundred members. ❋ Unknown (1881)
On the other hand the great shrike, the tree-creeper, the nut-hatch, the nut-cracker, the hoopoe, and many other birds, lay from four to six or seven eggs, and yet are never abundant. ❋ Alfred Russel Wallace (1868)
A brown tree-creeper has been to the limes, then to the cherries, and even to a stout lilac stem. ❋ Richard Jefferies (1867)
‘grub-picker’ (or tree-creeper), about as small as the penduline titmouse, with speckled plumage of an ashen colour, and with a poor note; it is a variety of the woodpecker. ❋ Unknown (2002)
Few sounds are heard through the winter days, to break the death-like silence that reigns around, excepting the sudden rending and cracking of the trees in the frosty air, the fall of a decayed branch, the tapping of a solitary woodpecker, two or three small species of which still remain after all the summer birds are flown; and the gentle, weak chirp of the little tree-creeper, as it runs up and down the hemlocks and pines, searching the crevices of the bark for insects. ❋ Catharine Parr Strickland Traill (1850)
Few sounds are heard through the winter days to break the deathlike silence that reigns around, excepting the sudden rending and cracking of the trees in the frosty air, the fall of a decayed branch, the tapping of a solitary woodpecker -- two or three small species of which still remain after all the summer-birds are flown -- and the gentle, weak chirp of the little tree-creeper, as it runs up and down the hemlocks and pines, searching the crevices of the bark for insects. ❋ Catharine Parr Strickland Traill (1850)
The long-continued hollow tapping of the large red-headed woodpecker, or the singular subterranean sound caused by the drumming of the partridge, striking his wings upon his breast to woo his gentle mate, and the soft whispering note of the little tree-creeper, as it flitted from one hemlock to another, collecting its food between the fissures of the bark, were among the few sounds that broke the noontide stillness of the woods; but to all such sights and sounds the lively Catharine and her cousin were not indifferent. ❋ Catharine Parr Strickland Traill (1850)
The long-continued, hollow tapping of the large red-headed woodpecker, or the singular subterranean sound caused by the drumming of the partridge striking his wings upon his breast to woo his gentle mate, and the soft whispering note of the little tree-creeper, as it flitted from one hemlock to another, collecting its food between the fissures of the bark, were among the few sounds that broke the noontide stillness of the woods; but to such sights and sounds the lively Catharine and her cousin were not indifferent. ❋ Catharine Parr Strickland Traill (1850)
