The note of the whitethroat, which is continually repeated, and often attended with odd gesticulations on the wing, is harsh and displeasing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1] Reference

'A whitethroat sang ... only for a moment — a burst of joy.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Country diary: Wenlock Edge] Reference

A poignant example is the whitethroat, a small songbird common throughout Europe.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Power Of Cuddly] Reference

Above the white deadnettle, from a branch of flowering blackthorn, almost out of sight, a whitethroat sang.    From Wordnik.com.  [Country diary: Wenlock Edge] Reference

Any of several small European birds; esp., the whitethroat, the garden warbler, or the blackcap, which use bedstraw (Galium) in their nests.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Annotated "Jack Straw"] Reference

A whitethroat flies out over the salt marsh from its grassed nesting bank on the most recent seawall, singing its dry ratchet song over the slippery green ooze; a redshank agitated by a marsh harrier towers inland over emerald wheat fields calling its bleak mud-flat alarm.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Year on the Wing] Reference

When the whitethroat came and burgeoning grains put out.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wood Carver's Wife] Reference

A whitethroat was catching insects in the garden on May 6.    From Wordnik.com.  [Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies] Reference

It is a whitethroat; his nest is deep in the parsley and nettles.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of the Fields] Reference

The whitethroat and sedge warbler, both threatened species which spend winters in the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest news, breaking news, current news, UK news, world news, celebrity news, politics news] Reference

Another whitethroat follows immediately, and there is not a leaf forgotten nor a creeping thing that can hide from them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Toilers of the Field] Reference

The song of the redstart is superior, though somewhat like that of the whitethroat; some birds have a few more notes than others.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1] Reference

So, too, the whitethroat in the wild parsley; so, too, the thrush that just now peered out and partly fluttered his wings as he stood to look.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of the Fields] Reference

Country boys set some value on the eggs of the nettle-creeper or whitethroat because the nest is difficult to find, and the eggs curiously marked.    From Wordnik.com.  [Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies] Reference

If the whitethroat eggs were taken from the nest and placed among particoloured pebbles such as are common on some shores, it would need care to distinguish them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies] Reference

The green caterpillar swings as he spins his thread and lengthens his cable to the tide of air, descending from the tree; before he can slip it the whitethroat takes him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies] Reference

The added distances for species of warbler such as the black cap and whitethroat, which already fly thousands of miles each year, could pose a considerable threat to their survival.    From Wordnik.com.  [Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming RSS Newsfeed] Reference

You might as well suppose that the whitethroat is aware that nettles will sting the human hand approaching its nest as that eggs are especially adjusted in colour to deceive human eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies] Reference

In addition to water birds, the garden provides the habitat of choice for native species rarely seen in the capital, including the common sandpiper, sedge warbler and lesser whitethroat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home | Mail Online] Reference

I am still eagerly awaiting the first whitethroat but there are plenty of other attractions to keep me enthralled before the last migrant birds arrive or the woodland flowers finish their brief season.    From Wordnik.com.  [getreading - Reading Post - RSS feed] Reference

Some did not show themselves (at least were not heard) till weeks after their usual time, as the blackcap and whitethroat; and some have not been heard yet, as the grasshopper-lark and largest willow-wren.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1] Reference

These bushes will be a likely place for a blackbird's nest; this thick close hawthorn for a bullfinch; these bramble thickets with remnants of old nettle stalks will be frequented by the whitethroat after a while.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Open Air] Reference

The added distances could be bad news for UK species such as the whitethroat, a farmland bird which already travels an average of 3,417 miles from sub-Saharan Africa to Europe and will have to increase that distance by up to 342 miles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming RSS Newsfeed] Reference

The yellow-hammer no doubt persists with more steadiness than any other: but the woodlark, the wren, the redbreast, the swallow, the whitethroat, the goldfinch, the common linnet, are all undoubted instances of the truth of what I advanced.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1] Reference

Meantime, the days go by (the whitethroat is come and sings now) and as I would not have you 'look down on me from your white heights' as promise breaker, evader, or forgetter, if I could help: and as, if I am very candid and contrite, you may find it in your heart to write to me again -- who knows?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846] Reference

But it is not only a delight to me to listen to the lark singing at heaven's gate and to the vesper nightingale in the oak copse -- the singer of a golden throat and wondrous artistry; I also love the smaller vocalists -- the modest shufewing and the lesser whitethroat and the yellowhammer with his simple chant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Afoot in England] Reference

The redstart yonder has given forth a few notes, the whitethroat flings himself into the air at short intervals and chatters, the shrike calls sharp and determined, faint but shrill calls descend from the swifts in the air These descend, but the twittering notes of the swallows do not reach so far -- they are too high to-day.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of the Fields] Reference

You could sit on the low churchyard wall in early summer under the shade of the elms in the hedge, whose bushes and briars came right over, and listen to the whistling of the blackbirds or the varied note of the thrush; you might see the whitethroat rise and sing just over the hedge, or look upwards and watch the swallows and swifts wheeling, wheeling, wheeling in the sky.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Amateur Poacher] Reference

And the whitethroat builds, and all the swallows ... ".    From Wordnik.com.  [There was a King in Egypt] Reference

Meantime, the days go by (the whitethroat is come and sings now) and as I would not have you 'look down on me from your white heights' as promise breaker, evader, or forgetter, if I could help: and as, if I am very candid and contrite, you may find it in your heart to write to me again ” who knows? ”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett]

The duke says: "Although I was in the woods and fields of Canada and of the States in the richest moments of the spring, I heard little of that burst of song which in England comes from the blackcap, and the garden warbler, and the whitethroat, and the reed warbler, and the common wren, and.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton] Reference

The apple orchard where the whitethroat sings.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rainbow and the Rose] Reference

And the whitethroat builds and all the swallows!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Graded Poetry: Seventh Year] Reference

Was redstart’s piping, and the whitethroat knew.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Priest] Reference

And the whitethroat builds, and all the swallows!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning] Reference

A common whitethroat, Sylvia communis.    From Wordnik.com.  [ENS] Reference