A blackbird in the garden of the Square was uttering a long, low, chuckling trill.
I caught more worms, too, than any of the blackbirds.
Only the blackbirds and thrushes can sing-up this day, and cuckoos over the hill.
The whistling of a blackbird near my head woke me and I saw the sun was getting high.
There are quantities of young blackbirds in these islands just beginning to fly.
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In both panels the line indicated by squares corresponds to parameters found in humans, whereas the three additional lines correspond to possible values of parameters for blackbirds.
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I think the argument that small boys will be made criminals if they take a blackbird's egg or a thrush's egg is really a bogey.
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Blackbirds, thrushes, greenfinches, owls, hawks and falcons are particularly mentioned as birds affected.
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I noticed a blackbird's nest in the undercarriage.
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To permit the taking of the eggs of blackbirds, thrushes and a few other species will not do a great deal of damage.
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The maximum fine is £5 for each egg—say £20 for a blackbird's nest and £40 for a water hen's nest—and a little boy is made a criminal.
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Nothing could be commoner than ablackbird, a thrush or a chaffinch, depending on where you live.
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The number of birds reported as taken are:blackbird59, skylark 278, black-headed gull 1, song thrush 2, redwing 8 and fieldfare 10.
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I have never seen blackbirds bred in captivity, although they probably are from time to time, but they certainly are not self-sustaining.
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If we are to protect the sheld-duck, what about the swans, sparrows, thrushes, blackbirds and skylarks?
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It would be rather dreadful if every small boy who took a thrush's or blackbird's egg could be hauled before the police court and fined.
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The ornithologists tell me that even the bird song of theblackbirdis to mark out his territory.
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Is he further aware that blackbirds and thrushes are mainly beneficial to agriculture?
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One is reminded of the five and twenty blackbirds, who sang before the king.
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Had she listened this morning, she would have heard a yodellingblackbird.
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