bird-nesting
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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He "didn't take school very seriously" and recalled playing truant one day with his friend - the headmaster's son - "to go bird-nesting".
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2023
They range, she said, from bird-nesting areas of less than an acre to expanses of more than 40 acres, where coyotes, eagles, otters and other land creatures gambol beneath bald eagles and red-tailed hawks.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 2, 2017
In the bird-nesting season, I climbed to positions in trees from which I could look down and watch birds building nests or nesting or feeding the nestlings.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 24, 2014
It encouraged us to exchange confidences of earlier deeds of derring-do, of bird-nesting, of rook-shooting, of angling for trout, of encounters with poachers.
From Merry-Garden and Other Stories by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
You and I will never go bird-nesting after this fashion, my dear Madam.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 by Various
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