The yellowhammer is the most persistent individually, but I think the blackbirds when listened to are the masters of the fields.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of the Fields] Reference

At the crest of the hill the wood gives way to fields, and a yellowhammer called and flew along the hedge.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Year on the Wing] Reference

"Little bit o 'bread and no cheese," said the yellowhammer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Featherland How the Birds lived at Greenlawn] Reference

She noted that the yellowhammer is Alabama's official state bird.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sand Mountain Reporter: News] Reference

The yellowhammer and the hedge sparrow tell over their short, recurring staves.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing] Reference

It was a flicker, or yellowhammer, a beautiful bird of the South about the size of a.    From Wordnik.com.  [With Sabre and Scalpel. The Autobiography of a Soldier and Surgeon] Reference

Brown partridge, and black rook, and yellowhammer, all hues and degrees, come to the wheat-field.    From Wordnik.com.  [Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies] Reference

As for the yellowhammer - which needs scrub and hedgerows - tidy farmers just mow their habitat away.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home | Mail Online] Reference

It will help bird species like the yellowhammer, linnet and corn bunting by providing more winter food.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kos RSS Feed] Reference

Let's drop the charges and send them back to Alabama and let them drop the yellowhammer on the Alabamans.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

The yellowhammer is almost the longest of all the singers; he sits and sits and has no inclination to move.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of the Fields] Reference

Modern farming practices have contributed to a decline in the population of birds such as the yellowhammer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference

Reed bunting and yellowhammer figures are up 134 per cent and 80 per cent, and song thrushes by 65 per cent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming RSS Newsfeed] Reference

The bird, that looks a bit like a fat yellowhammer, used to be found as far north as Wimbledon Common in London.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference

Alas, these days, in most places, the yellowhammer, the linnet and the landscape they once inhabited have gone the same way as the skylark.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home | Mail Online] Reference

A pall of ominous silence hung over this labyrinth of desolation, broken only by the chirp of bluebird or the distant call of the yellowhammer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Southerner A Romance of the Real Lincoln] Reference

A dead bird or two were passed, lying in the snow, claws in air and already stiff: a felt and a yellowhammer were side by side at the bottom of the hill.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Murphy' A Message to Dog Lovers] Reference

Bright as are the colours of the yellowhammer, when he alights among the brown clods of the ploughed field he is barely visible, for brown conceals like vapour.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nature Near London] Reference

Two particular birds provide telling evidence of the future facing the British countryside and its inhabitants: the lapwing and the cirl bunting, a relative of the yellowhammer.    From Wordnik.com.  [British Blogs] Reference

Songbirds such as the yellowhammer, corn bunting and skylark - whose songs are for many a treasured part of the countryside - have been in decline for decades and it is hoped the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference

Far away in a copse a wood-pigeon called; nearer the blackbirds were whistling; a willow wren uttered his note high in the elm, and a distant yellowhammer sang to the sinking sun.    From Wordnik.com.  [Round About a Great Estate] Reference

Clare’s note on the yellowhammer’s eggs—Clare’s Birds, p.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Year on the Wing] Reference

John Clare’s poem on a yellowhammer’s nest—“The yellowhammer,” John Clare, The Oxford Authors, eds.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Year on the Wing] Reference

A #6 weighted yellowhammer.    From Wordnik.com.  [What's your favorite fly?] Reference

A number 6 weighted yellowhammer.    From Wordnik.com.  [what is your favorite fishing bait?] Reference

The yellowhammer trailing grass will come.    From Wordnik.com.  [Randall Couch reads “The Yellowhammer” by John Clare] Reference

The yellowhammer, often prest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems Chiefly from Manuscript] Reference

King Midas saw a yellowhammer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Betsinda Dances and Other Poems] Reference

The yellowhammer loves to find.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems Chiefly from Manuscript] Reference

English yellowhammer is a bunting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birds of the Indian Hills] Reference

The yellowhammer never makes a noise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems Chiefly from Manuscript] Reference

The yellowhammer flutters in short fears.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems Chiefly from Manuscript] Reference

The yellowhammer, trailing grass, will come.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems Chiefly from Manuscript] Reference

And there, that's the song of the yellowhammer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home | Mail Online] Reference

And the little yellowhammer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867.] Reference