I just learned that the stonechat is a bird, but this yarn speaks to me of bricks. From Wordnik.com. [Extra-muros] Reference
Edolius occurs here, another stonechat has come in. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference
Actually we heard two cuckoos, a stonechat and curlews, saw a heron, skylarks and countless warblers and the sun shone for most of the run without getting too hot. From Wordnik.com. [Black socks, they never get dirty] Reference
The bird species confined to Réunion are the Réunion cuckoo-shrike (Coracina newtoni, EN), Réunion stonechat (Saxicola tectes), Réunion olive white-eye (Zosterops olivaceus), and Réunion bulbul (Hypsipetes borbonicus). From Wordnik.com. [Mascarene forests] Reference
But the rock stood still, and a stonechat went and perched on it. From Wordnik.com. [The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction] Reference
In the garden this afternoon, a female stonechat, captured here via the magic of holding my iPhone up to a pair of binoculars. From Wordnik.com. [Heraclitean Fire] Reference
Miriam broke off some lotus-buds and threw them at the stonechat, which flew away, but kept its beak still pointing towards the rushes. From Wordnik.com. [Historical Miniatures] Reference
A stonechat he was sure it must be, and he wandered on till he came to a great silver fir, and thought that he spied a pigeon's nest among the multitudinous branches. From Wordnik.com. [The Lake] Reference
It is summer, and the wind-birds top the furze; the bright stonechat, velvet-black and red and white, sits on the highest spray of the gorse, as if he were painted there. From Wordnik.com. [Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies] Reference
Bless me, man, it's good of you, though, sitting up in the chimney there same as a good ould jackdaw, keeping the poor wife company when her selfish ould husband is flirting his tail like a stonechat. From Wordnik.com. [The Manxman A Novel - 1895] Reference
The ground-lark sways on a frond above you; the stonechat lights for an instant, utters his cracking cry, and is off with a whisk; you have fair, quiet, and sweet rest, and you start up ready to jog along again. From Wordnik.com. [The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour] Reference
A stonechat of the desert sat on a rock by the river, wagged its tail, and flapped its wings, as though it wished to show something which it saw; and chattered at the sight of something strange among the bulrushes. From Wordnik.com. [Historical Miniatures] Reference
'Soldier or shepherd, what matter now she is gone?' and rising to his feet and coming down the sloping lawn, overflowing with the shade of the larches, he climbed through the hawthorns growing out of a crumbled wall, and once at the edge of the lake, he stood waiting for nothing seemingly but to hear the tiresome clanking call of the stonechat, and he compared its reiterated call with the words. From Wordnik.com. [The Lake] Reference
The stonechat has another strategy. From Wordnik.com. [Country diary: Claxton, Norfolk] Reference
Downs was then the stonechat. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the Fields] Reference
Sometimes a stonechat or. From Wordnik.com. [A Patriotic Schoolgirl] Reference
Chaffinch and greenfinch, warbler, stonechat, ruff. From Wordnik.com. [Georgian Poetry 1918-19] Reference
The birds are the common sparrow, field-fare, red-legged crow, magpie, skylark, a finch which flies about in large flocks, with a sub-forked tail, raven, red-tailed stonechat, larger tomtit, syras, long-tailed duck, and quail, which is much larger than that found in Assam. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference
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