A gold phoebe, and what everyone else has said. From Wordnik.com. [Some good trout lures in a stream please??] Reference
The phoebe bird is about the first one we shall see. From Wordnik.com. [Outdoor Sports and Games] Reference
Like trying new things. phoebe sterling on October 11, 2007. From Wordnik.com. [Mashed Parsley Root & Sweet Potato | A Veggie Venture] Reference
I would guess if it is nesting on the house it is a phoebe. From Wordnik.com. [Backyard birding] Reference
Nawt shur iff iz sayme phoebe whuts inner clewspun baggdoh. From Wordnik.com. [lolcat twin powers - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference
Tuesday, September 23, 2008 at 00:27 | Permalink phoebe wrote. From Wordnik.com. [abada abada › yay internetz & web-friends] Reference
The robin, the phoebe, and the barn and eave swallows are masons. From Wordnik.com. [Friends and Helpers] Reference
Flocks of phoebe and towhee and dove pushing the cold ahead of them. From Wordnik.com. [Healer] Reference
When we see gnats or small insects in the air we may expect the phoebe. From Wordnik.com. [Friends and Helpers] Reference
SOLEDAD O'BRIEN: Oh, no, you haven't lived here long enough to know it's a phoebe. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 7, 2006] Reference
When the first insects appear the phoebe comes to prevent them from growing too numerous. From Wordnik.com. [Friends and Helpers] Reference
"Pewit - phoebe!" he calls, with a wag of his tail, as he sits on a fence or bridge rail. From Wordnik.com. [Friends and Helpers] Reference
CHAPTER SIX phoebe would have paused in the doorway, but Kasper had a firm hold of her hand. From Wordnik.com. [A Summer Idyll]
A phoebe soon built in my shed, and a robin for protection in a pine which grew against the house. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7] Reference
Given the location which is all we know it could be osprey or eagle, or just another damned phoebe. From Wordnik.com. [Gray again] Reference
January 19, 2005 16: 59 phoebe: does anyone know where we can get this album online or in the shops?. From Wordnik.com. [Whitey meets the Glimmers... (Music (For Robots))] Reference
CHAPTER NINE phoebe felt George's hands tighten round her waist and then lift her without haste to the ground. From Wordnik.com. [A Summer Idyll]
The honeysuckle and the sweet briar crept up its walls; the wren and the phoebe bird built under its eaves. From Wordnik.com. [The New York and Albany Post Road From Kings Bridge to "The Ferry at Crawlier, over against Albany," Being an Account of a Jaunt on Foot Made at Sundry Convenient Times between May and November, Nineteen Hundred and Five] Reference
Bob McDonald ran as a moderate who claimed not to be a rightwing nut, but I knew he was a homo-phoebe all along. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Virginia attorney general instructs state colleges to stop protecting gay students from discrimination.] Reference
The wood pewee, like its relative, the phoebe, feeds largely on the family of flies to which the house fly belongs. From Wordnik.com. [Bird Day; How to prepare for it] Reference
On a related note, I replaced a treble hook with a single hook on a phoebe spoon recently to match some regulations. From Wordnik.com. [Trout Spinner Primer] Reference
It had a garden full of plants she had never seen: phoebe nanmu, papayas, and bananas, on grounds covered with green moss. From Wordnik.com. [WILD SWANS THREE DAUGHTERS OF CHINA]
Birds suitable for study by the pupils of Form II are the crow, flicker, downy woodpecker, blue-bird, chipping-sparrow, phoebe, wren. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study] Reference
Sutton and Burleigh (1939a: 33) saw this phoebe several times in southern Coahuila and obtained a male "near San Pedro" on January 29. From Wordnik.com. [Birds from Coahuila, Mexico] Reference
Grandson Cam spotted a black phoebe during a family vacation. From Wordnik.com. [The News Tribune Blogs] Reference
April day, and showed me a phoebe bird's nest six stories high. From Wordnik.com. [Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes and Other Papers] Reference
Afterwards I identified it as Say's phoebe, a distinctly western species. From Wordnik.com. [Birds of the Rockies] Reference
By noon it begins to snow, and you hear the desolate cry of the phoebe-bird. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner] Reference
I substituted the letters "oe" for the ligature, used often in the word phoebe. From Wordnik.com. [Winter Sunshine] Reference
The phoebe-like cry of the traill was to be heard constantly from the hotel piazza. From Wordnik.com. [The Foot-path Way] Reference
Of the flycatchers, I have noted the kingbird, the least flycatcher, and the phoebe. From Wordnik.com. [Birds in the Bush] Reference
After breakfast I passed the place again, and the only bird to be found was one phoebe!. From Wordnik.com. [The Foot-path Way] Reference
Always the freshness and coolness, and always the delicate mossy nest of the phoebe-bird!. From Wordnik.com. [In the Catskills Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs] Reference
It is a small, delicately formed, weak-winged little bird, about the size of our phoebe-bird. From Wordnik.com. [Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation] Reference
Wilson's thrush; chewink, 32; fly-catcher; bluebird; oven-bird; cat-bird; phoebe, 40; bobolink; "reed-bird," 53; humming, 227. From Wordnik.com. [My Studio Neighbors] Reference
This was my first observation of Say's phoebe, although, as will be seen, I subsequently saw one under somewhat peculiar circumstances. From Wordnik.com. [Birds of the Rockies] Reference
It is loud, pervasive, and in quality of tone not unlike our Eastern phoebe, lacking entirely the sweet plaintiveness of our wood-pewee. From Wordnik.com. [A Bird-Lover in the West] Reference
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