Wintering Sentence Examples

He went himself to the wars with Verus in 167, first to Aquileia and then on into Pannonia and Noricum, wintering at Sirmium in Pannonia.

He started in 1248 with a gallant company, which contained his three brothers and the sieur de Joinville, his biographer; and after wintering in Cyprus he directed his army in the spring of 1249 against Egypt.

It may, however, well be that the capacity for wintering in the dry state has physiologically replaced the need for resistent fertilized eggs.

Horse and cattle ranching is practised in Alberta, where the milder winters allow of the outdoor wintering of live stock to a greater degree than is possible in the colder parts of Canada.

He was able to be of some service to Vilkitski's expedition wintering about 180 m.

Baulked of any opportunity of joining in the main Crusade, Edward, after wintering in Sicily, conducted a Crusade of his own to Acre in the spring of 1271.

On the 4th of October he again drew up a review of the situation, in which he apparently contemplated giving up his communications with France and wintering in and around Dresden, though at the same time he is aware of the distress amongst his men for want of food.

While wintering at Napoli di Romania (Nauplia) he died on the 6th of January 1694.

Wintering at Chimkent, he captured Tashkent the following year.

A division of his army seems to have repulsed a large Scottish force at Largs (though the later Scottish accounts claim this battle as a victory), and, having won back the Norwegian possessions in Scotland, Haakon was wintering in the Orkneys, when he was taken ill and died on the 15th of December 1263.

Conant was not a separatist, and the Salem settlement was a commercial venture, partly agricultural and partly to provide a wintering place for Banks fishermen so that they might more quickly make their spring catch.

After wintering at Zara the fleet set sail on the 7th of April 1203, and on the 23rd of June anchored in the Bosporus.

The first wintering of the pirates in England was on the contiguous island of Thanet in A.D.

It entered the Ross Sea too late to make a landing, and after wintering in Sydney returned in 1911-2, when a landing was effected on the Barrier in the Bay of Whales on Jan.

After wintering in Syria Germanicus started for a tour in Egypt.

Finally they took to wintering on the coast of England or the Empire, a preliminary to actual settlement and conquest.

The significance of Fen Drayton Nature Reserve for its wintering bittern is not recognized in the Environmental Statement.

Between these two surveys the number of wintering blackcap showed a substantial increase.

Over wintering chiffchaffs may be seen in waterside locations on sunny days flitting around catching the few insects that are active.

Nearby at the new Eagle Lake reserve, we found some late wintering Bronzed cowbirds but the real spectacle were the herons and waders.

The wintering Blackcap in the Obs garden was joined by a second individual but the only other new arrival there was a single fieldfare.

This is the first wintering greenshank for at least six years.

It was designated for its estuaries and adjacent coastal habitats, which are important for breeding gulls, terns and wintering waterfowl.

The open field pattern to the north is an important site for wintering golden plover.

Twenty Red-throated Divers passed through off the Bill, where the 25 wintering Common scoter were also still present.

These forests are probably good for wintering songbirds, but because of limited time we didn't bird there thoroughly.

Warmer weather will bring over wintering greenhouse spider mites out of hibernation.

The surrounding fields often hold large numbers of wintering thrushes.

The annual cycles of northern wintering waders take account of the possibility of severe weather.

BirdWatch Ireland - all Ireland Conference, Mike Toms will be speaking at this conference on wintering warblers.

Fen Drayton Lakes is known to be an important site for wintering waterfowl in the Great Ouse Valley.

Some facts and figures The reserve is nationally important as a refuge for its flock of wintering whooper swans.

You can spot waders, wintering wildfowl all year round.

Its coastline includes some important seabirds cliffs, as well as tidal estuaries which are highly attractive to wintering and migrating wildfowl and waders.

The Dutch emulated the British in the Arctic seas during this period, directing their efforts mainly towards the discovery of a north-east passage round the northern end of Novaya Zemlya; and William Barents or Barendsz (1594-1597) is the most famous name in this connexion, his boat voyage along the coast of Novaya Zemlya after losing his ship and wintering in a high latitude, being one of the most remarkable achievements in polar annals.

Twenty Red-throated Divers passed through off the Bill, where the 25 wintering Common Scoter were also still present.

These forests are probably good for wintering songbirds, but because of limited time we did n't bird there thoroughly.

Loch Leven and Lough Neagh, for example, each support over 20,000 waterfowl, including large numbers of wintering whooper swan Cygnus cygnus.

Whilst on their wintering grounds in coastal British Columbia, the birds mainly eat roots and tubers of emergent plants on tidal flats.

The populations of a number of wintering waterbirds, such as dunlin, ringed plover and turnstone, have continued to decline.

The Caithness site may be at risk from eutrophication if numbers of wintering geese increase markedly.

These, however, may be had by wintering layers under glass and planting them out in late April or early May.

The difficulty of wintering the Brompton Stocks deters many from attempting their cultivation, and many die, even in a mild winter.

Do consider over wintering crops not mentioned here.

He commanded the old " Discovery," and was at work during the seasons of 1792, 1793 and 1 794, wintering at Hawaii.

In the season of 1740 he continued his voyage to beyond the Kolyma, wintering at Nizhni Kolymsk.

An excellent pit for wintering bedding-out plants or young greenhouse stock is shown at fig.