whitethroats

The dense vegetation is teeming with warblers preparing to fly south – whitethroats, blackcaps and willow warblers – all feeding up in the shrubs rich in insects and berries.

Country diary: Cissbury Ring, Findon 2011

By now the more melodic music of the other birds had found its rhythm and built into full flow: the soft cooing of wood-pigeons, the lyrical blackcaps and lesser whitethroats, the piping of robins and wrens, chiffchaffs and the confident glissando of the chaffinches.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

By now the more melodic music of the other birds had found its rhythm and built into full flow: the soft cooing of wood-pigeons, the lyrical blackcaps and lesser whitethroats, the piping of robins and wrens, chiffchaffs and the confident glissando of the chaffinches.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

She saw greater numbers of small birds hopping, flying, singing, and flashing their brilliant colors: nightingales and warblers, blackcaps, whitethroats, red-breasted flycatchers, golden orioles, and many other varieties.

The Plains of Passage Auel, Jean M. 1990

There were fairies, too, in the bower; four little whitethroats were flitting about in the sunshine.

The Princess of the School Angela Brazil 1907

Strange little brown birds -- whitethroats and linnets perhaps, if the eye could only have followed them -- flew in and out of the blackthorn hedges all day long.

Sally Bishop A Romance 1906

Majesty's Theatre for a single evening under such uncomfortable circumstances, and to be asked to watch lesser whitethroats creeping up and down a nettle "almost every evening" during the height of the season struck her as an imputation on her intelligence that was positively offensive.

The Chronicles of Clovis 1870-1916 Saki 1893

"Lie quietly concealed in the fern and bramble in the gap by the old rowan tree, and you may see, almost every evening during early summer, a pair of lesser whitethroats creeping up and down the nettles and hedge - growth that mask their nesting-place."

The Chronicles of Clovis 1870-1916 Saki 1893

Among the birds of this kind which pass up the river, but of which only a few pairs stay to breed on the eyot, are whitethroats, blackcaps, chiff-chaffs, and, I believe, nightingales.

The Naturalist on the Thames 1882

Finches, linnets, blackbirds, thrushes, wrens, and whitethroats, and many others, all passed him, and he could see the same thing going on to his right and left.

After London Or, Wild England Richard Jefferies 1867