| He discerned turtles, mocking-birds, merles, nightingales, cushats and stone-curlews inside, and marvelled and was moved to much joy and solace. |
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| But diet extends to a selection of birds including warblers and even swallows, wheatears and nightingales. |
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| Whether the birds represented oracular nightingales, or wrynecks used as love-charms and rain-inducers, is disputable. |
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| There are already an estimated 20000 of them, surpassing native birds such as barn owls, nightingales and kingfishers. |
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| Let the light of the burning building scare the nightingales and incarnadine the willows. |
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| It is surprising that despite all the pollution, increased lighting and noise, I can still hear the nightingales sing and spot an odd fire fly or two amid the bushes. |
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| It doesn't take much to get him on to the subject of the nightingales, otters, barn owls and even notoriously shy bitterns now living alongside the humans at Lower Mill. |
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| Listening to the songs of the nightingales and the rustling of the wind through the trees, he delighted in the sounds and smells of nature on that sunny afternoon. |
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| The estate is home to a variety of bird life, from breeding common terns, nightingales and tufted ducks to vast numbers of wintering birds, such as wigeon, smew and goosander. |
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| A habitat for a watch of nightingales could be created in Essex. |
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| The roses were in bloom, two nightingales soliloquized in the boskage, a cuckoo was just going out of tune among the lime trees. |
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| Scientists found that thrush nightingales subjected to a magnetic field simulating the one in northern Egypt began stocking up on food. |
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| In 1839 she came out in society as a debutante, with the Nightingales taking an entire floor of the Carlton Hotel in London's Regent Street to mark the event. |
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