When all at once dart at the falling prize.
As these birds live on insects, their appearance is a certain proof that some of this minute tribe of animals have ventured from their winter abodes.
Thomson thus describes this busy month among the feathered tribes —
Some to the holly-hedge
Nestling repair, and to the thicket some;
Some to the rude protection of the thorn
Commit their feeble offspring. The cleft tree
Offers its kind concealment to a few,
Their food its insects, and its moss their nests.
Others apart, far in the grassy dale,