Sentences with phrase «old bird at»

A charming, but still wily, old bird at that.

Not exact matches

On a cloudy summer day, Iowa farmer Wendy Johnson lifts the corner of a mobile chicken tractor, a lightweight mesh - covered plastic frame that has corralled her month - old meat chickens for a few days, and frees several dozen birds to peck the surrounding area at will.

The Game Bird at The Stafford will take its place alongside the hotel's existing private dining rooms, 380 - year - old working wine cellars, and the award - winning American Bar, with Durrant working together with Bar Manager Benoit Provost, and Master Sommelier Gino Nardella, to elevate and perfect the culinary offering at the hotel.

An ardent tree climber, bike rider, feeder of birds and catfish (the water hazards at Eldorado swarm with them), she much prefers to sleep in an old T shirt than in a nightgown.

To them, Pierce was their Bird; a notion that was scoffed at dismissively by older fans and observers.

Toffee fans will hope they can get a result at Old Trafford today or else its not just the birds that will be angry.

Man's pride in his carriage, which is almost as old as the wheel itself, has a pronounced manifestation in the golf cart — and particularly at Thunderbird, where there are 165 privately owned carts housed in the Thunder - bird Buggy Stable, a wood and cinder - block shack out behind the clubhouse kitchen.

* In Chapel Hill, the North Carolina Botanical Garden, on the University of North Carolina campus, at 100 Old Mason Farm Rd., is hosting Valentine's is for the Birds Family Workshop from 10 - 11:30 a.m. Saturday.

Strycker, a 31 - year - old writer, photographer and self - described «bird man,» will share stories from his epic round - the - world journey on Jan. 24 at Chicago's Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum.

Go apple picking Jump in a pile of leaves Make some autumn art Collect colourful fall leaves Collect seeds from plants in the garden Plant bulbs for next spring Make a bird feeder Make leaf prints Make pumpkin playdough Create an Autumn poem Go looking for spider webs Make a nature table with your Autumn finds Bake an apple pie Carve your own pumpkin Make Autumn sun catchers Go on a bat watch at dusk Make toffee apples Set up a scavenger hunt Collect sycamore seeds Grab an umbrella and go singing in the rain Throw a Halloween party Make an autumn wreath for your door Make a bug hotel Listen to the sound of leaves crunching under your feet Collect conkers Collect pinecones Collect twigs Make hot chocolate Draw or paint some autumn still life Attend harvest festival Make apple crisps / chips Remember what you're thankful for Take pictures of all the different colours you can find in a woodland Make leaf rubbings Go stargazing Have an autumn picnic Look for a full moon Go trick or treating Try apple bobbing Make apple sauce Fly a kite Make a windsock Dry orange slices Roast pumpkin seeds Make Halloween biscuits Make a rain catcher Build an indoor fort Collect acorns Donate old woollens and coats to a charity Help clear leaves from the lawn

Currently at 2 years old we do bath, cup of milk while we snuggle for 15 minutes of their favorite show, brush teeth, read a story, select current favorite stuffed animal to take to bed (right now Sydney loves Big Bird and Kasey wants Abby Cadabby), say good night to the cat and the clock and then they go down pretty well (around 8:30 pm).

Your once fearless five - year - old suddenly refuses to leave your side at the park saying, «I'm afraid the birds will eat me,» while eyeing the tiny swallows hopping on the ground as if they're evil geniuses plotting his demise.

The wise old bird was at it again on Sunday morning, offering one of the most lucid defences of Britain remaining in the European Union.

Living at the same time as the dinosaurs, Hesperornithiform bird fossils have been found in North America, Europe and Asia in rocks 65 - 95 million years old.

Archaeopteryx, at 150 million years old still the oldest known bird, had an imposing set of teeth.

From the beginning, the researchers took great pains to select birds only for their behavior: Jungle fowl were tested for tameness at 12 weeks old, before they reached sexual maturity.

«Recent reports of lapses in biosafety practices involving Federal laboratories» — the mistaken shipment of live anthrax samples by a lab at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta; the accidental contamination of benign poultry flu samples with the deadly H5N1 bird flu at the CDC; and the discovery of old vials of smallpox on the NIH campus in Maryland — «have served to remind us of the importance of constant vigilance over our implementation of biosafety standards,» the notice states.

Even with their tiny bird brains, rooks comprehend basic principles of physics at the same level as a 6 - month - old baby — and beyond that of chimpanzees — a new study reports.

In a separate study, CT analysis of the inner ear of Archaeopteryx — a 145 - million - year - old creature considered to be a link between reptiles and birds — indicated that it «had hearing ability much like a modern emu,» says Paul Barrett, another paleontologist at the museum.

Hamlyn describes its Young Ornithological Guides as a totally new concept in bird books aimed at 8 to 14 - year - olds.

But when researchers injected Anas platyrhynchos ducklings at 4, 9, or 14 weeks old with red blood cells from sheep to simulate a parasitic infection, the birds — as adults — explored new items in their environment and approached small orange toys, a color they typically avoid because they seem to associate it with toxic food.

Two fossilized footprints found at Dinosaur Cove in Victoria, Australia, were likely made by birds during the Early Cretaceous, making them the oldest known bird tracks in Australia.

Contrary to the prevailing belief that young albatrosses remain at sea until they're ready to breed, VanderWerf and Young found that 2 % of birds first returned to the colony as one - year - olds, 7 % as two - year - olds, and 17 % as three - year - olds.

At approximately 90 million years old, the bird fossils are among the oldest avian records found in the northernmost latitude, and offer further evidence of an intense warming event during the late Cretaceous period.

Using a variety of techniques, including Synchrotron Rapid Scanning X-ray Fluorescence — a chemical imaging method developed at Stanford University that permits the detection of low levels of elements across large surfaces — the team was able to visualize the remains of pigments in several fossil birds, including the 150 - million - year - old Archaeopteryx and the 125 - million - year - old Confuciusornis.

For long - lived species such as humans, chimpanzees, whales and some birds, longer survival is associated with higher reproductive rates and a loss in fertility only at an extremely old age.

In hihi birds, floaters tend to be either younger males (around a year old) that are inexperienced at holding a territory or older males (over five years) who lack the energy to defend territory.

When the birds were 23 days old, the age at which song learning is known to begin, the researchers injected the gene - silencing RNA strands into seven male zebra finches» brains, using 10 finches as controls.

I assumed the urge to protect non-indigenous pheasants at the expense of this spectacular native bird had disappeared along with the old - time keepers.

The toothed baby bird provided researchers with evidence of its independence at just a few days old.

We stared at Larry Bird as we chowed down and watched good old American football on TV.

Things I've learned while in London: chips (french fries) can be eaten at every meal, people feed the birds, bars are pubs and many claim to be the oldest, and there is an art form to walking.

Photography by Lil Bird / / Workout Gear by Old Navy I love these printed top pants and off shoulder workout top I recently picked up at Old Navy.

** early bird prizes happening so join us early at the Prior Lake City Hall -RCB- ** my 4 year old last night; «So mom, there are going to be birds there?»

Outfit Details: Top: Birds on a Wire Top, on sale at thelimited.com (no longer available) Jacket: Lands End Canvas cargo jacket, old Scarf: Old navy, old Jeans: David Kahn, on sale at ideeli a while ago Shoes: Lands End ballet flats, thrifted $ 5 Jewelry: thrifold Scarf: Old navy, old Jeans: David Kahn, on sale at ideeli a while ago Shoes: Lands End ballet flats, thrifted $ 5 Jewelry: thrifOld navy, old Jeans: David Kahn, on sale at ideeli a while ago Shoes: Lands End ballet flats, thrifted $ 5 Jewelry: thrifold Jeans: David Kahn, on sale at ideeli a while ago Shoes: Lands End ballet flats, thrifted $ 5 Jewelry: thrifted

exercises yes... before husband died i was scared to leave his side so kids brough take out so I gained 60 pounds so just taking it off.150 is not normal weight I am always being asked what am I looking for, well once a old wise man told me if you can buy a piece of IKEA furniture and both can put together without wanting to kill each other scream, yell, swear at each other then thats the man for you... Someone that's kind, honest not married, not looking for any one nighters I think these dating sites are for the birds, it does not matter if you pay or do not pay either way everyone on here wants everything else but relationship.

There's a scene in Rampage, the latest movie adaptation of an old - ass — sorry, «vintage» — video game, in which an albino silverback gorilla named George flips the bird at Dwayne «The Rock» Johnson.

Lady Bird's principal at the Catholic private school she goes to notes how much the 17 - year - old seems to love Sacramento, evident in how she writes about the city.

The 36 - year - old Preacher actress and the 34 - year - old Lady Bird director teamed up for the event held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Monday (May 7) in New York City.

The 34 - year - old Lady Bird writer - director was joined at the event by the honoree of the evening herself Laurie Metcalf, who was accompanied by her daughters Mae Akins Roth and Zoe Perry.

That self - doubt is never apparent on the screen in Lady Bird, where she takes on the well - worn role of the judgmental, puckered - lip mother constantly at war with her independent - minded 17 - year - old daughter.

The 21 - year - old breakout star of three upcoming movies with Oscar buzz («Call Me by Your Name,» «Lady Bird» and «Hostiles») grew up in Hell's Kitchen, graduated from LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, studied at both Columbia and NYU and now resides in the East Village.

The 23 - year - old actress has been nominated for the Best Actress prize at this Oscars for her performance in «Lady Bird», and although she is taking her mum, Monica, to the ceremony, Saoirse revealed she almost decided on taking the beloved family pooch.

The 23 - year - old actress was joined at the awards show by her Lady Bird director Greta Gerwig and co-star Laurie Metcalf.

Only the dress is my old prom dress, the carpet will be rented, and I'll be spending the evening at St. Francis High School, the real - life inspiration for the all - girls Catholic academy in Lady Bird.

The 28 - year - old actress was joined at the event by her co-stars Adam Driver, John David Washington, Cory Bird, Topher Grace, Damaris Lewis, Jasper Paakkonen and director Spike Lee.

Steering is different to the arcade games of old because in those you had to wrap your head around which direction is left and right while staring at your vehicle from a bird's eye view.

Greta Gerwig, one of the most delightfully quirky actresses in Hollywood, now sits in the director's chair analyzing the question through the experiences of Christine «Lady Bird» McPherson (Saoirse Ronan), the twenty - three - year - old Ms. Ronan playing a high school senior at the age of seventeen.

Mr. Oscar Homolka, a slow, kindly, desperate Mr. Verloc, and Miss Sylvia Sidney, as his innocent wife, raise the melodrama at times to the tragic level, and Mr. William Dewhurst gives a superb performance as the Professor, a soapy old scoundrel who supports his shrewish daughter and her bastard child with a bird business, concocting his explosives in the one living - room, among the child's dolls and the mother's washing.

The 23 - year - old Lady Bird actress was joined at the event by her co-star Laurie Metcalf and writer / director Greta Gerwig.