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The stubborn coot had me trying for six months, during which I wasn't whipped once.
In a few hours, Uncle Ivan, a Mocha Frappuccino-loving old bald coot, was due to arrive.
Instead of a mischievously lovable old coot, we get this barely Irish, youngish, oafish dude.
Papa has always been a crotchety, grouchy, grumpy yet extremely lovable old coot.
However, there were plenty of resident shorebirds hanging out in the lagoon as well, such as the American coot, killdeer, and American avocet.
I saw a single coot and lots of wood pigeons perched in the dead trees surrounding the lagoon.
I have very dark brown eyes and even though I now shave my head so I'm bald as a coot, I once had long dark brown flowing locks.
Sibelius was portrayed as a grim faced gentleman with mad, bulging eyes, bald as a coot.
There are the usual species for this wetland habitat mallard, tufted duck, coot, wigeon, teal and mute swan.
Hence if Balde were, well, bald as a coot, knobbly-kneed or of Bunteresque physique, he would duly be ridiculed for these signs of imperfection.
Of course, native birds such as the American coot, mallard, and Brewer's blackbird also used this valuable oasis.
When I first visited the Lake in July 2000, there were over 200 coot and great numbers of other birds, including 40 Black Swans.
Overall, of the 10 coot eggs that were scored as similar to the host's, five were buried and five were accepted.
Not even a coot presented itself among the boats and docks, but I finally saw an Osprey at a great distance.
But I hope you'll indulge an old-fashioned coot like me if I choose to believe otherwise.
Why should the oldest coot in the majority party be the one who is in line for the presidency?
Look, I'm the oldest coot in the business, but even I do not want to just keep reliving the past over and over.
Other birds I saw near the pond were coot, moorhen, purple swamphen and a few Gray Wagtails walking around near the water.
He was also an endearingly tetchy coot whose prejudices, passions, and irascibility remained uncompromised over time.
Birds with white plumage, such as swans, have a white body louse, while the dark-plumaged coot has an almost black body louse.
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The moorhen and coot are too inconspicuous as they lurk under the reeds, or swim hurriedly across the open water.
The nest of the hyacinthine Gallinule is made on the sedge-patches which dot the marshes, much like that of the coot.
I kept quiet 'til the last coot was retrieved to hand and walked to the edge of the canal to congratulate Stone.
When parasitic chicks arrived at a nest before native chicks, coot parents discriminated against their own young.
But there is no necessity to shoot the coot in order to identify it.
The sportsman will enjoy no peace until he sacrifices a coot.
I stood forninst him, an' 'twas not me oi alone that cud tell Peg was dhrunk as a coot.
I hear the noise of a coot proceeding from the reeds of a pond.
The nest and eggs of the coot are very like those of the common Moorhen.
At Tristan d'Acunha, where, according to Carmichael, there are only two land-birds, there is a coot.
It's a little disappointing,'' said Coot of her store's imminent closure.
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