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
The dear old days of bird-nesting and nutting and coasting and fishing and general delightful goings-on were over forever.
From Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907 to 1908 by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)
How I feared him as he caught me bird-nesting at an early hour in the p. 70Park, and sent me home with a heavy heart as he threatened me with Beccles gaol.
From Christopher Crayon's Recollections The Life and Times of the late James Ewing Ritchie as told by himself by Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)
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