Small olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North America.
1The wood pewee builds an exquisite nest, shaped and finished as if cast in a mould.
2Everywhere in these solitudes I am greeted with the pensive, almost pathetic not of the wood pewee.
3Everywhere in these solitudes I am greeted with the pensive, almost pathetic note of the wood pewee.
4The wood pewee, the prevailing species in this locality, arrests your attention by his sweet, pathetic cry.
5It is only the oriole and the wood pewee that, as a rule, go higher than this.
6But the wood pewee is an exception.
7The wood pewee builds a neat, compact, socket-shaped nest of moss and lichens on a horizontal branch.
8I noted but one nest of the wood pewee, and that, too, like so many other nests, failed of issue.
9The note of the wood pewee is a human sigh; the chickadee has a call full of unspeakable tenderness and fidelity.
10The common or wood pewee excites the most pleasant emotions, both on account of its plaintive note and its exquisite mossy nest.
11The wood pewees show that devotion to each other and to their home, characteristic of their family.
12"Then the Wood Pewee builds late, like the Cedar Waxwing and Goldfinch?"
13"If you please," Peter inquired politely, "why do folks call you Wood Pewee?"
14See also several of the Swallows; the Kingbird, the Phoebe, the Wood Pewee and other Flycatchers; the Chimney Swift; and the Chewink.
15"You haven't given us any table for the Wood Pewee," said Dodo, who always took great pleasure in writing in her little book.
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