perch

“He doesn’t have much purchase on pesticides from his perch,” Cook said.

Watching from a perch in the surveillance age, her reticence is understandable.

Crowds of birdwatchers flocked to a quiet cul-de-sac after a rare sighting of a species perched on a garden washing line.

There, zebra mussels and quagga mussels have thrived and caused a major decline in the yellow perch fishery.

Workers at a construction site perched on a wooden beam and ate lunches they’d retrieved from a food truck.