nest-building

Lloyd Evans, BrightonHow do nest-building birds get the first few twigs to balance?

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In the end, I suppose, I shall become a nest-builder, for of a surety nest-building is one of her pretty ways.

CHAPTER XXXVII 2010

I made extra time to look out my office window that day, to appreciate the beauty of the woodline behind my own home, to take in the busy work of two robins nest-building under my deck, to listen to the spring peepers in my little pond.

Flag Day 2009

But it was man-sized and seemed possessed of more than a ganglionic nest-building instinct.

Locust Valley Breakdown Andrew Edwards 2012

Food preparation is the most natural, instinctive activity in the world, right up there with nest-building and baby-making.

Lisa Turner: Intuitive Cooking: Tips to Get You Started 2010

Food preparation is the most natural, instinctive activity in the world, right up there with nest-building and baby-making.

Lisa Turner: Intuitive Cooking: Tips to Get You Started 2010

Food preparation is the most natural, instinctive activity in the world, right up there with nest-building and baby-making.

Lisa Turner: Intuitive Cooking: How to Find Your Inner Chef 2010

The list of Federal agencies which are immune to such insider nest-building is quite short.

What Kind of MMS Did Obama Inherit? | RedState 2010

Food preparation is the most natural, instinctive activity in the world, right up there with nest-building and baby-making.

Lisa Turner: Intuitive Cooking: How to Find Your Inner Chef 2010

Both male and female contribute to nest-building: the nest is created in an area shaded from the sun and protected from predators.

Galapagos penguin 2010