Nothing happens here except time and the roosting of pigeons.

Soon the sounds of the squabbling, roosting people were far behind her.

They would perish in the night unless they found new roosting.

He pushed past the geese, who were roosting on the stairs, and ran down to the landing below.

Look at the prosperity that Thallon saw during the time of the roosting."

An unusual characteristic of this species is its communal roosting in thickets during the winter months.

For the last 12 weeks a highly unusual book has been roosting in the nonfiction best-seller list compiled by this newspaper.

Communal roosting is common because it lowers the loss of body heat and decreases the risks associated with predators.

The function of communal roosting is to synchronise various social activities, avoid predators, exchange information about food sources.

This protected indoor roosting, however, is anathema to the New Jersey surfer.

They are more noisy early in the morning and in the evening before roosting, as well as before rain.

Communal roosting is practiced by birds when large flocks or colonies roost together usually in trees with several hundred on each.

Overall, data on the social behaviour of the Grey Currawong is lacking, and roosting habits are unknown.

Rock doves live only in open areas, not densely wooded places, and only near a suitable roosting or nesting site.

She came in and landed neatly on the perch, and both it and the mesa shook with the impact of her roosting.

The drumming of hooves roused roosting birds from the sedge and sent them spiralling for the sky.

By roosting here these females and their young are in an area where ventilation is minimized and there is high heat retention.

They require large trees both for feeding on as well as to provide hollows for nesting and nocturnal roosting.

Thicket that provides incessant shade throughout the day provides shelter to these migratory butterflies roosting.

At roosting sites the Passenger Pigeons packed so densely on branches that even thick ones often broke under their collective weight.

The tailed tailless bat is nocturnal, spending the day roosting in caves, tree hollows, and some man-made structures.

Flocks increase in size in autumn and birds congregate at dusk for communal roosting, with up to several thousand individuals gathering at one site.

Later, electricians laid live wires across the Corinthian columns of the Capitol and other prominent buildings to discourage starlings from roosting.

White-fronted Bee-eaters nest in colonies averaging 200 individuals, digging roosting and nesting holes in cliffs or banks of earth.

The roosts in trees may be close to the ground.

After that the country got too hot to hold him so he drifted west to the Roost.

It has several- roosts, I suppose we must call them.

They often form large roosts, with between 50 and 100 individuals, which feed together on the ground.

One has to get in position, he said, before the birds fly down from their roosts.

Even the birds of the air seemed to have stayed in their roosts.

They are active during the day, retiring to roosts at night.

Several Virginia communities have roosts with 1,000 birds or more.

Most of the white doves had settled into their roosts for the night.

Night roosts are often found within the bats' foraging area.

Young bats stay in the roosts for one month and are then capable of flight.

I was sent underground to try and check out some bat roosts.

If it closes, some Starbucks customers will need to find new roosts.

The group first played in the summer of 1948 at the Royal Roost.

The white birds stirred in their roosts, as if they could sense something ominous.

In the dim interior he made out several roosts, one with two birds sitting on it.

In the non-breeding season some roosts can number thousands of birds.

Birds screeched above me as they settled back in their roosts.

Some, such as the tomb bats, live in large roosts, but others are solitary.

Logo programming has been available on the Roost service since the time of its official launch.

They are faithful to their summer and winter roosts, returning to the same sites each year.

They live in roosts of a thousand or more members, and have one or two young per year.

The court was deserted; the fowls, even, had not left their roosts.

After the breeding season is completed, the birds will form large communal roosts.

Unlike many of its relatives, this species does not form large, conspicuous roosts.

It was her house and she had finally come home to roost.

Now, it is in Texas where they're coming home to roost.

He had no idea how many roosted in his room at night.

"They held themselves above the law, and now it's coming back to roost."

Poor decisions in these areas are now coming to roost.

But the economic implications of the change soon came home to roost.

Fifteen or 20 years ago it came home to roost with her.

The chickens of the first world war are coming home to roost.

At least one of their early purchases has come home to roost.

Any mistakes would come home to roost right on her head.

It roosts in trees but sometimes also on the ground.

"I have come home to roost," he said, sitting in the study of the house.

But now we're coming home to roost and everything is happening too fast for her.

All those expectations come to roost at the dinner table.

Now, here they were, my love affair come home to roost.

The chickens, as they say, are now coming home to roost.

Some of these issues will have to come home to roost."

I see that the chickens are finally coming home to roost.

What we are watching now is the chickens coming home to roost.

Oh, yes, this was certainly a case of the right chickens coming home to roost.

"I guess all birds really do come home to roost."

"At some point those costs are going to come home to roost.

And there's also a quality of chickens coming home to roost.

They seem to think it's night, and are roosting in a row!

It however roosts on the ground although calling from the trees.