bird's-nesting

Street, and, refreshed by their baths, proceed to bird's-nesting on the wilderness of the Stuyvesant Farm, where is now situate Stuyvesant Park, one of the loveliest and most elegant pleasure-grounds open to the New

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 Various

He met two small boys out bird's-nesting: he gave them a shilling apiece, and then inconsistently informed them that if he caught them then or at any other time with a bird's nest in their hands he would cuff their ears.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875 Various

And so we started just after midwinter on the weirdest bird's-nesting expedition that has ever been or ever will be.

The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913 Apsley Cherry-Garrard 1922

The question now arises, Has 'the weirdest bird's-nesting expedition that has ever been made' added appreciably to our knowledge of birds?

The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913 Apsley Cherry-Garrard 1922

'Unless my wits is gone a bahd's neezing' - by which Mr. Peggotty meant to say, bird's-nesting - 'this morning, 'tis along of me as you're a-going to quit us?'

David Copperfield Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1917

But he always had to do what Jack did as a little one, and Jack led him into all sorts of mischief, till one day when they were about ten they went off bird's-nesting along the cliffs High Shale Point way, and only Jack come back late at night to say his brother had gone over the cliff.

The Obstacle Race 1910

There were no children in the batch except Martha's friend's little boy, and he was timid and never went bird's-nesting.

Gone to Earth Mary Gladys Meredith Webb 1904

There were very few diversions for the youth of Putnam's time, so long ago; but the boys, like those of modern times, indulged in bird's-nesting now and then.

Old Put The Patriot Over, Frederick A 1904

"You shall go with us bird's-nesting," said the Admiral.

Sir Mortimer Mary Johnston 1903

One January I went "bird's-nesting" with a party of Scout-masters.

Young Knights of the Empire : Their Code, and Further Scout Yarns Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell Baden-Powell of Gilwell 1899