In a clump of briers across the stream was the nest of a pair of redbirds that I was watching.
"Roof and Meadow"
Dallas Lore Sharp
And we'd sit there in the grass and listen to the redbirds in the cedars, and make up stories about all the people lying there asleep.
"The Little Colonel at Boarding-School"
Annie Fellows Johnston
Here happy redbirds glint and gloom, The wildrose sheds a sweet perfume, But death oft lurks in leaf and bloom, Down Lover's Lane!
"The Loom of Life"
Cotton Noe