Tag: eastern bluebird
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Baby Bluebirds
Be like the bluebird who never is blue, for he knows from his upbringing what singing can do. ~Cole Porter I checked on the bluebird box out in the yard yesterday to see if any of the four eggs I saw about a week ago had hatched. As always, I approached noisily, then knocked on Read more…
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Joy in Parting
What Joy Can There Be In Parting? ~A poem by Melissa Dowland; images by Mike Dunn The bluebird perched on the branch right in front of me. I could see his sharp beak, his rusty breast, his snow-white belly. Then he turned And became a dazzle of blue as he flew between the trees and Read more…
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Busy Bluebirds
The bluebird is one of the most familiar tenants of the farm and dooryard. For rent the bird pays amply by destroying insects, and takes no toll from the farms crop. ~USDA Farmers Bulletin #513, 1913 I mentioned in an earlier post that I am trying to provide some video clips of what birds are Read more…
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A Well-named Bird
…he wears a coat of the purest, richest, and most gorgeous blue on back, wings, and tail; he carries on his back the blue of heaven and the rich brown of the freshly turned earth on his breast… ~Arthur Cleveland Bent, in Life Histories of Familiar North American Birds, 1949. I finally had a chance Read more…
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In the Belly of a Bluebird
The Bluebird Carries the Sky on His Back. ~Henry David Thoreau I probably have used that famous HDT quote before in a post, but it is so apt. Although the color of a male is so intense this time of year that it exceeds even a perfect Carolina blue sky. Bluebirds are among the most Read more…
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More than Just Blue
When Nature made the bluebird she wished to propitiate both the sky and the earth, so she gave him the color of the one on his back and the hue of the other on his breast…He is the peace-harbinger; in him the celestial and terrestrial strike hands and are fast friends. ~John Burroughs, The Bluebird, Read more…
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A Bounty of Bluebirds
A friend posted a picture yesterday of bluebirds in her nest box. So I went out this morning and checked the one box I have that can be easily opened, and it looks like a good bluebird spring! The male and female were watching me as I went over to the box and opened it Read more…
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