I could never go away for more than two weeks - I am very much a home bird and love to get back.

She fled into the church like a homing bird.

"But you are really a home bird, aren't you, Celine?"

His power lashed out, nestled close like a homing bird returning to a place of safety.

I know how hard it is to find work in England or America, and I'm a home bird."

However, the player, once described as "the biggest home bird you could ever meet", declined, preferring instead to spend the off-season fishing.

Deprived of ordinary vision, homing birds nevertheless seem to sense when they are getting closer or farther away from their destinations.

Walter is a real home bird."

Then it was flying through the air toward Blade, settling into his hand as neatly as a homing bird.

"Somewhere about here must be the pigeon loft where those homing birds have been bred," suggested Jack, following up a train of thought.

Yet it was not to kill that he had flown like a homing bird to this meeting, whatever he himself had believed.

I'm a home bird.

Like a homing bird she nestled in the THEM; raised red lips to his.

"Recent experiments with homing birds."

'His spirit came to mine like a homing bird,' she said, and in her smile even the pale reflection of happiness was sweet and stirring.

Rud's bluebins and robjays were so much more sensible; at home birds sounded like birds, not aged'philosophers.

Homed birds, flying reptiles, feathered Homo sapiens?

Grinnell sent home bird specimens of the San Francisco Bay area, en route to Alaska.

Cheep shot Of Parrott, Doyle said: 'John's a great home bird.'

An hour earlier, Bering Strait had picked up a report that another B-29, named Homing Bird, had ditched.

Home Bird (Release date TBA)

I'm very much a home bird but we do own a small converted barn on the coast near Wells-next-the-Se a in Norfolk and we often spend Saturday night there.

The moon was already a quarter of the way above the eastern horizon, her oval shape shining pale as shell, and homing birds soared, and swooped in the golden sky.

And he in his desperate anxiety had fallen headlong into the trap, and led them straight as a homing bird to the nameless grave under the walls of Strata Marcella.

Early navigators would have exploited these seasonal winds, navigating by the stars, the color of the water, the presence of sea snakes, and observation of the flights of sea crows and other homing birds.