"Wood pewee" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... The wood pewee, like its relative, the phoebe, feeds largely on the family of flies to which the ...
— Bird Day; How to prepare for it • Charles Almanzo Babcock
... color—a shade deeper than is ever seen at the North, I think—of the male's blue coat. In a small thicket in the hollow beside the road were noisy white-eyed vireos, a ruby-crowned kinglet,—a tiny thing that within a month would be singing in Canada, or beyond,—an unseen wood pewee, and (also unseen) a hermit thrush, one of perhaps twenty solitary individuals that I found scattered about the woods in the course of my journeyings. Not one of them sang a note. Probably they did not know that there was a Yankee ...
— A Florida Sketch-Book • Bradford Torrey |
