One thing must be said, however, in defence of the western wood-pewee -- he means well. ❋ Unknown (1896)
She saw a variety of birds, including the titmouse and the eastern wood-pewee ❋ William R. Burk (1877)
Next to the wood-pewee, he was the most friendly of our feathered neighbors. ❋ Olive Thorne Miller (1874)
This bird's nest, as well as his song, is unlike that of our wood-pewee. ❋ Olive Thorne Miller (1874)
But on my first morning in the grove, what was my dismay -- I may almost say despair -- to find that the Western wood-pewee led the matins! ❋ Olive Thorne Miller (1874)
On the edge sang the indigo-bird and the wood-pewee, and cardinal and wood-thrush song formed the chorus to all the varied notes that we heard. ❋ Olive Thorne Miller (1874)
The wood-pewee, in dress and manners nearly resembling his Eastern brother, ❋ Olive Thorne Miller (1874)
It is loud, pervasive, and in quality of tone not unlike our Eastern phoebe, lacking entirely the sweet plaintiveness of our wood-pewee. ❋ Olive Thorne Miller (1874)
Not only does the veery exhibit this strong liking for solitude, and express the loneliness of the woods more perfectly than any other bird, with the exception, perhaps, of the wood-pewee; but his calls and cries are all plaintive, many of them sensational, and one or two really tragic. ❋ Olive Thorne Miller (1874)
The wood-pewee was unheard, and even the vireo seemed to have finished his endless song and gone his way. ❋ Olive Thorne Miller (1874)
Other sweet baby-talk in the trees came from the wood-pewee. ❋ Olive Thorne Miller (1874)
Paddling near the shore, we frequently heard the pe-pe of the olive-sided fly-catcher, also the wood-pewee, and the kingfisher, thus early in the morning. ❋ Unknown (1858)
The birds sang quite as in our woods, -- the red-eye, red-start, veery, wood-pewee, etc., but we saw no bluebirds in all our journey, and several told me in Bangor that they had not the bluebird there. ❋ Unknown (1858)
On the third or fourth of May I saw a loon in the pond, and during the first week of the month I heard the whippoorwill, the brown-thrasher, the veery, the wood-pewee, the chewink, and other birds. ❋ Unknown (1854)
Poetry is found in the names of Vancouver Island's residents - warbling vireo and chipping sparrow; hairy woodpecker and willow flycatcher; northern flicker and Western wood-pewee; belted kingfisher and orange-crowned warbler; red-breasted sapsucker and black-headed grosbeak and chestnut-backed chickadee. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The Scarths 'close-up images of showy orchis and northern monkshood, great spangled fritillary and painted lady, red-breasted nuthatch and eastern wood-pewee, ornate box turtle and gray treefrog, big bluestem and cotton-grass, and many other natural wonders look more like paintings than photographs. ❋ Book-er (2010)
wood pewee is [a funny] [word] ❋ Xxrainbowchicxx21 (2011)
