Sentences with phrase «roosting in»

The taxidermied birds that adorn Sarah's home are echoed by the chirps and clucks of live ones: finches that brighten up the kitchen, and a flock of hens roosting in a backyard coop.

Bats are nocturnal and usually spend the daylight hours roosting in caves, rock crevices, trees, or manmade structures such as houses and / or bridges.

From 1974 to 1988, no other Townsend's Big - eared Bats were seen on Santa Cruz Island, before Dr. Pat Brown of UCLA, in 1991, was made aware of a colony of Townsend's roosting in the bakery room of the Scorpion adobe building.

Lucky viewers may be able to spy them soaring the warm air currents or roosting in the craggy rock faces of the island's cliffs.

Churches are often floodlit at night to show off their architecture — but the lights are preventing bats from roosting in the ancient buildings

They finally hit pay dirt when Chinese horseshoe bats roosting in water tunnels tested positive.

There are dusky, feathered jaegers roosting in nooks along the bluff, so close to Akaji's trail that he might reach out and stroke them.

Again, sense veiled threats or trying to spark fear and there just ani» t no chickens roosting in America.

This Custom of gathering together to sleep and rest at night (roosting in English) is practiced by a few animals, including white herons, mammals, and some species of butterflies.

«My overall experience is that organized people rule the roost in saving money and time.»

They also pay close attention to the tug - of - war between the deflationary forces at roost in the US and UK and the policy makers» desire to reflate.

Winged birds of every kind will roost under it, they will roost in the shelter of its sweeping boughs.

Though it is the smallest of seeds, yet, when it has grown up, it is the largest of garden plants, and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the sky come and roost in its branches.»

I'm no power - walker, and running isn't even on my radar these days, I just want to walk, to stop and look for the bald eagle that roosts in the tallest tree, to listen to CBC Morning Edition on my little earbuds, nod hello at all of the senior citizens that are my company at this hour of the day.

From time to time a little clutch of them will come thru our yard and roost in the favored bird tree, gossiping and bickering away.

Mot mots, parrots and doves roost in the cedar, cuernavaca, oak and inga trees near Finca Santa Isabel, a Rainforest Alliance Certified coffee farm in southeastern Guatemala.

PUBlic House roosts in the heart of Old Town Temecula among rustic, nostalgic buildings.

Head to Sundowners, Market 88, or Buzzards Roost in North Key Largo to try a rendition of Chef Bobby's favorite cracked conch.

Now he's ruling the roost in a 1 team league where his team is the top dog who buy up all the league talent in order to neuter the competition.

Mr. Wood lives in Dover, a snug, salt - bleached gulls» roost in England's southeast coast famous for its White Cliffs, its sole, the canonization of its beach by Matthew Arnold and as the world's springboard for English Channel swimmers.

His predecessor Fabio Capello's reign was far too distant, and whatever his merits as a coach his reputation was compromised by the failures of the 2010 World Cup — which memorably included a performance against Algeria so bad that a bird was able to roost in one of the goalnets — and the toxic fallout from Chelsea and then - England captain John Terry racially abusing Queen's Park Rangers centre - back Anton Ferdinand, brother of England stalwart Rio.

The poor relation now seem to run the roost in the city.

«This is Citizens United coming home to roost in New York,» said Richard Brodsky, a Senior Fellow at Demos, a public policy organization.

The worldwide push for government entities to drop investments in fossil fuels comes home to roost in the Empire State: this week New York legislators, led by Senator Liz Krueger, introduced the Fossil Fuel Divestment Act, which would require Comptroller Tom DiNapoli to divest the Common Retirement Fund's holdings in the top 200 fossil fuel companies by 2020.

Legislators have one request - that the county make accommodations for bald eagles that roost in the area.

Much as I like his effect on the internal manouvres of Labour I suspect that Corbyn's idea of a Federal republic is one where the Labour party rules the roost in every province.

During a wide - ranging speech to the chamber, Gibson didn't mention that those huge increases in local electricity rates he was fighting to rescind had come home to roost in consumer bills this month.

Insect - eating bats often roost in houses, and people may encounter the animals more frequently as settlements push deeper into previously wild areas.

Small to medium - sized enterprises, or SMEs, rule the roost in the biological job market.

Maybe we take comfort in a certain branchy tree shape because our Pleistocene forebears roosted in such trees at night for safety from predators.

It would also help me cull the flock of equally repulsive, unwanted bald - headed Chicago penguins that roost in my backyard every winter.

Though many species of bats roost in groups, vampire bats are unique in their sharing of blood meals and in their propensity for social grooming.

The authors suggest that the bat hosts, which roost in trees, may have been exposed to the same mosquito vectors that transfer the parasites between the tree - dwelling rodent hosts.

Kunz concludes that such cooperative behaviour is probably common in bats that roost in colonies.

Stony Brook evolutionary biologist Liliana Dávalos (in tree) and Miguel Núñez Novas from the Museum of Natural History in Santo Domingo examine a bat roost in the Dominican Republic.

Mowing phragmites, a tall and sturdy invasive grass, also dispersed a host of bird species that liked to roost in the grass, Allan said.

They also roost in urbanized areas such as New York City and Chicago where they form large, noisy flocks that can be heard for great distances.

They'll roost in the wetlands during the day and they fly out to agricultural fields — primarily flooded rice fields in California — at night.

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I am beyond excited to officially announce that I will be teaching a fermented foods workshop this month at The Kings Roost in Silverlake!

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BioShock Infinite and the Xbox 360 ruled the roost in March 2013 in the United States, according to the NPD.

Martin Carr reviews the season two finale of Wayward Pines... The pigeons have come home to roost in a season finale which delivers where others have failed.

«We found 48 new viruses in the surrounding forest,» Olival says, «including a virus related to SARS in bats that roost in the cave.»

The sixth episode of Harry Potter's training at Hogwarts has him confronting the evils of the past that have come to roost in the present, including the story of Tom Riddle, the former boy student at the school who would grow up to become the wicked Lord Voldemort.

The Gift The sins of the high - school cafeteria come home to roost in «The Gift,» a coolly unsettling thriller that begins as an unironic homage to late -»80s / early -»90s yuppies - in - peril dramas like «Fatal Attraction» and «The Hand That Rocks the Cradle,» before taking a turn toward the moral and existential minefield of Michael Haneke's «Cache.»

Film Review by Kam Williams Headline: College Grad Returns to Roost in Coming - of - Age Comedy Aura (Lena Dunham) is a recent college grad (Lena Dunham) who's depressed about being dumped by her boyfriend and by the realization that her degree in film appreciation is pretty much worthless.

Fifteen years after its founding by two economists — an American and a Czech, who fell in love at a seminar on the collapse of the Soviet Union — the BASIS network already roosts in the scholastic stratosphere.

Hands Down, this 4x2 Sierra Rules The Roost in the hard working segment!

Just as its 3 Series cars rule the roost in the luxury performance sedan category, BMW's 5 Series cars are the envy of the industry in the mid-size luxury performance sedan category.