As the footpath winds by the hedge the noise of his footstep startles the blackbird Roosting in the bushes, and he bustles out and flies across the field.
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies
When an old New England fox in some of his nightly prowlings discovers a flock of chickens Roosting in the orchard, he generally gets one or two.
"Ways of Wood Folk"
William J. Long
They would soon be gone to their Roosting-places and the tired men to their cottages, and the white owl coming from his hiding-place in the walls would have old Silchester to himself, as he has had it since the cries and moans of the conquered died into silence so long ago.
"Afoot in England"
W.H. Hudson