reedling

Here a brook-sparrow or sedge-reedling takes up his quarters in the spring, and chatters on, day and night, through the summer.

Nature Near London Richard Jefferies 1867

At the end of the hedge which is near a brook, a sedge-reedling takes up his residence in the spring.

Nature Near London Richard Jefferies 1867

On the contrary, the sedge-reedling, which chatters side by side with the nightingale, is the first of all his kind to return to the neighbourhood.

Nature Near London Richard Jefferies 1867

The latter sings in one bush and the sedge-reedling in another close together.

Nature Near London Richard Jefferies 1867

A cuckoo called from the top of the tallest birch, and a nightingale and a brook-sparrow (or sedge-reedling) were audible together in the common on the opposite side of the road.

Nature Near London Richard Jefferies 1867

Over the stormy waters a band of brown bank-martins wheel hastily to and fro, and from the osiers the loud chirp of the sedge-reedling rises above the buffet of the wind against the ear, and the splashing of the waves.

Nature Near London Richard Jefferies 1867

The furze itself became a broad surface of gold, beautiful to look down upon, with islands of tenderest birch green interspersed, and willows in which the sedge-reedling chattered.

Nature Near London Richard Jefferies 1867

Part at least of it was shallow, for a dead branch blown from an elm projected above the water, and to it came a sedge-reedling for a moment.

Nature Near London Richard Jefferies 1867

The moment the nightingale ceases the sedge-reedling lifts his voice, which is a very penetrating one, and in the silence of the night may be heard some distance.

Nature Near London Richard Jefferies 1867

The sedge-reedling is so fond of sedges, and reeds, and thick undergrowth, that though you hear it perpetually within a few yards it is not easy to see one.

Nature Near London Richard Jefferies 1867