Bluebirds are extremely picky when it comes to deciding where they choose the location of their nesting area and the type of nest to live in. At first, this seems to be a very odd trait, but it turns out to be a thoughtful and helpful one. Bluebirds like their nests facing a certain direction for a variety of complicated and interconnected reasons. They will pick the cardinal direction of the opening of their nest depending on the area and the surrounding environment. This unique decision making process involves the direction of the blue bird’s house, the landscape surrounding the bird house, and the food and resources available around the blue bird‘s possible habitat. According to “A Guide to Field Identification of Birds of North America” …show more content…
Husman wrote in her article for Sciencing.com, “Bluebirds prefer a box with a small round opening closer to the top, with the body of the box available for a protected nest. Leave about 6 inches of box beneath the oval opening, with the front of the box about 9 inches tall and the back about 13 inches tall, creating a slanted roof or flat roof as desired. The opening size depends on the type of bluebird in your area, for example, Eastern Bluebirds require about a 1 1/2-inch diameter opening, while mountain and Western Bluebirds need an opening of about 1 9/16 inches in diameter. The entire nesting box can be constructed from a one-by-six inch board roughly 5-feet long. Set the nesting box height based on the bluebird breed from 3 to 6 feet above the ground”. None of this matters though if the house is not in a comfortable and safe …show more content…
If someone is trying to attract Bluebirds, it is important to know that the more food that is surrounding the bird house the more likely the Bluebird will choose to live in that house. One trick is to place a tiny bit of food and fresh, clean water in the blue bird’s house to attract them to visit the bird house you build. A Bluebird’s favorite meal is usually meal worms, but are also appealed to other items you can put out such as suet, sunflower hearts, soften fruits, cornmeal muffins, and some insects. Bluebirds are also attracted to other foods that may be around the bird house area such as, “fruits of elderberry, hackberry, serviceberry, sumac, flowering dogwood, holly, red cedar, fox grape, and Virginia creeper” according to Husman. Bluebirds will eat different things for the season they are in, but the meal worms are eaten year around. The availability of food in important in attracting and enticing the Bluebirds to the area, but the other factors of the home must also be met for the Bluebird to choose a house to live
In her book, Fun Home, Alison Bechdel uses simplistic black and white artwork with a touch of the color blue. The shade she uses is a grayish-blue hue that reminds me of the color duck egg blue. I feel that Bechdel uses this particular shade of blue to coincide with the tone of her personal graphic novel. The color blue is known as a very flexible color choice. It can have a positive calming effect and may be associated with feelings of serenity and spirituality. Blue can also be used to suggest loneliness and sadness and induce a cold, chilling feeling. The latter emotions emphasize the direction that Bechdel was leading her readers to.
Every day many species are slowly becoming either endangered or extinct and recently an endangered bird species called piping plovers, started nesting on Revere Beach. What would seem as a miraculous discovery, many are averse to their new inhabitants on the beach. Many Revere residents are complaining because the piping plovers now occupy parts of “their” beach. But in the article “Revere Beach should welcome the piping plover” The Editorial Board believes that the presence of the piping plover could be greatly beneficial to the city of Revere and I certainly agree. What led me to select this particular article is my concern for the many endangered species in the world like the piping plover. Human hands have led many species to become endangered
Rowland, Beryl. Birds With Human Souls, A Guide to Bird Symbolism. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 1978.
...d genuine excitement, although the reasons were still scientific. The birds’ effects on Dillard, on the other hand, contrasted from how the birds had affected Audubon. Throughout her whole encounter with the starlings, Dillard “didn’t move” at all. She was mesmerized from when the birds first appeared to her up until they had wiped out into the woods. As the birds disappeared into the trees, she “stood with difficulty” with her “spread lungs [roaring]” Ultimately, Dillard was appalled by the magnificence of the flocks in flight.
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Denotatively a bird is defined as a, Any of a class (Aves) of warm-blooded vertebrates distinguished by having the body more or less completely covered with feathers and the forelimbs modified as wings, often capable of flying. The authors/Glaspell’s strategic comparison of Mrs. Wright to a bird can be interpreted connotatively that she was a free,
" University Of Windsor Review 16.1 (1981): 92-101. Print. The. Laurence, Margaret. A.S.A. & M.S.A. A Bird in the House. Toronto, ON: McCelland & Stewart, 2010.
In Cold Mountain and "A Poem for the Blue Heron", tone is established in a multitude of ways. These two pieces of literature describe the characteristics and actions of a blue heron, both aiming for the same goal. However, Charles Frazier and Mary Oliver approach their slightly differing tones employing organization, metaphoric language, and diction.
Smith, Gene. "Lost Bird." American Heritage 47.2 (1996): 38. MAS Ultra - School Edition. EBSCO. Web. 6 Apr. 2015.
The large ground finches have a higher curve while the medium ground finches have a smaller head and a tiny beak. The place in which the finches live is what changes their appearances and also the weather helps decide the appearance of these finches.
A bluebird is a small songbird with a blue head, back and wings. It is only exposed in the spring season, when the flowers are growing and air is slowly getting warmer. It comes out of its nesting when it feels the joy of the environment; it lets himself fly free and lets himself forget the worries of when being on ground level. The bluebird is defenceless in flight, and is always trying to seek freedom and escape being locked up. Even though Charles Bukowski wrote because of his promiscuous lifestyle, he expresses his opinions through his development of complex emotions while using a bluebird to symbolize the human soul of emotion; and through Bukowski's poem, he uses strong writing styles to develop his ideas.
The following points give you ideas on how to construct a birdbath which will be usable during winter:
Thesis: Engulfed in darkness and surrounded by sounds both familiar and frightening, Josh Malerman’s novel, Bird Box shows that in order to survive the unknown one must continue to believe that they will find their safe haven.
All birds follow different migration patterns. Some fly north and south, some fly east and west, and very few fly overseas. Depending on the destination and the weather conditions, some birds fly up to 600 miles a day. Most people complain they have to drive the fifteen miles to work. Birds make the world around us seem small. However, once we leave home, we are forced to open our eyes to the new world in front of us. A world we may have chosen to move to or may not have. In the end, some people chose to move to pursue a better life and some leave home and migrate because of the ones they love, but no matter the circumstance, we all remember the place we once called home.
Birds have direct and indirect economic and cultural values for people. Birds are important for a lot of reasons. Birds provide us food, medicine, fertilizers and also bring about pollinations. They are important because they are a part of the food chain. Birds are also important because they help spread seeds around and thus help with the planting process. Birds also perform vital ecological role, besides their economical role. They are critical links within the fast food chains and webs that exist in the ecosystem. The economic importance of birds can be studied into two parts – A) Beneficial effect B) Harmful effect.