Sentence examples similar to brooding owls from inspiring English sources
The voles go through three to four years of breeding boom and bust and 2016 appears to have been a deep trough, according to the National Trust, with no barn owl broods seen at Malham in the Yorkshire Dales or at Dyrham Park, near Bath.
The owl chicks can breathe even when their mother is brooding them.
Votive candles start brooding.
In Engadin, Switzerland, the male eagle-owl hunts until the young are 4 to 5 weeks old and the female spends all her time brooding at the nest.
Unreliable, brooding, brilliant, incorrigible.
When all aloud the wind doth blow, And coughing drowns the parson's saw, And birds sit brooding in the snow, And Marian's nose looks red and raw When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl, Then nightly sings the staring owl, Tu-who; Tu-whit, tu-who: a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.
brooding, gloomy, misery, wary.
Stannis is still brooding.
In such areas, full nightfall is essentially non-existent at the peak of summer, so eagle-owls must presumably hunt and actively brood at the nest during daylight.
