Sentences with phrase «pecking at the bird»

You don't need to go pecking at the bird feeder.

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This is even observable in the animal world; sometimes when a bird encounters a rival, they don't fight or flee, they just peck at the ground.

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.

Babbler denoted the image of a bird pecking away at a scrap of bread.

Brined, air - dried, steamed, roasted at three escalating temperatures, and, finally, paraded through the dining room on a bed of flaming hay, it's the dish that secured chef Greg Proechel's coveted spot in the whole - bird pecking order.

The story narrated by a dog features Jim Crow as a bird who pecks at people.

De Blasio is pecking away at his predecessor's legacy, this time clipping the wings of «Birdie,» a symbolic bird created by the Bloomberg administration to promote sustainability.

First Zeuxis revealed his — a bunch of grapes so lusciously lifelike that birds swooped down to peck at the canvas.

A microphone sensor that monitors LIGO's surroundings caught the sounds of pecking birds on tape in July 2017, Berger, of the LIGO Laboratory at Caltech, said.

The sets would appear on a computer screen, and the birds would have to peck at them in the correct, ascending sequence to get a reward of food.

The birds often peck at each other's feathers, causing painful scars, bleeding, and even death.

Zeuxis uncovered his work: he had painted grapes so realistic that birds flew from the sky to peck at them.

On average they made 6.6 more pecks per minute than birds at the centre of the flock.

They even caught one raven in the act that was pecking at the ice — likely to slurp up the bird equivalent of a slushy, Beverly Berger, a physicist and ombudsperson of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, said at the conference, according to Science News.

And the bird kept pecking at her face!

She wants a better life for her daughter, but she's not great at showing it; she's also closer to the bird that lives on her shoulder and keeps pecking at her ear than she is with Tonya.

Speaking straight to the camera, nearly unrecognizable, she's wrinkled, sporting an awkward bowl cut, giant glasses, and a voluminous fur coat with an energetic bird sitting on her left shoulder, pecking at her oxygen tube.

The bird pecking at a head wound is more preposterous than disgusting, but there's also the scene where workers are transporting a huge block of ice into town that flips the equation.

There will still be injuries, but at least the doctor won't treat them by having a bird peck at the wound.

The tablet is only given out to first graders, and they only learn to play angry bird and peck at a screen.

I was a student and needed babysitting work, and so I would walk from interview to interview in these attractive but wintry neighborhoods, the eerie multitudes of robins pecking at the frozen ground, dun - gray and stricken — though what bird in the best of circumstances does not look a little stricken — until at last, late in my search, at the end of a week, startlingly, the birds had disappeared.

When there are blood stains or wounds, take extra care as follicles of the skin can get infected; especially when the bird pecks excessively at the wounds.

If the infection goes untreated, the bird may start to peck at the infected area until it becomes ulcerated, and the more the infection progresses, the higher the risk will be that it could prove fatal.

You can also find «preening» toys, which birds peck at and groom, and cuddle toys.

With little of the series» signature humor and ridiculous shenanigans to peck at his funny bone and an abundance of decidedly less interesting binary choices crammed into the bite - sized experience, Holiday Star «s fowl love potion gave Jay a case of the Bird Flu.

And, in the level right before this, there were birds that tried to peck at you as you descended a cavernous shaft.

But despite Angry Birds» casual audience similarities to those two peripherals, it's the core console audience Heijari wants to peck at first.

Carbon traders; dodgy academics; vulture capitalists pecking on the bloated carcass of renewable energy; environmental NGOs; environmental consultancies who specialise in giving «expert» testimony at planning appeals, arguing on the most spurious grounds that no the bats and birds in this area aren't going to be affected by this new wind turbine they're going to be happier than ever no really; sustainability officers at every level of local government; advisers attached to every business who advise them how to reduce their CO2 count; PR companies that specialise in green awareness; dog - on - a-rope wind turbine scamsters; environmental lawyers.

Birds, for example, may peck at grass when uncertain whether to attack or flee from an opponent; similarly, a human may scratch its head when it does not know which of two options to choose».