Robins, song sparrows, vesper sparrows, and swallows are not absent, except as breeding birds. |
Sitting in my barn-door study I see a vesper sparrow fly up and alight on the telephone wire with nesting-material in her beak. |
The pint-size vesper sparrows darting in front of the truck seem to punctuate his point. |
A young man with a guitar straddled a balustrade and plucked morose notes to a candid vesper hymn as the artisans of the field filed in limpid processions to their familial foodfests. |
We found some interesting sparrows including vesper and a first year chipping sparrow going into winter plumage. |
Peter didn't know it, but it is this habit of singing in the evening which has given Sweetvoice his name of vesper sparrow. |