Sentences with phrase «feathers from»

Beans placed in the vase kept the stems and feathers from flopping over.

You still have feathers from 9 years ago!

Guess I just have a «feather thing» going on... I've been collecting different (6 varietiees so far) bird feathers from the yard and put them in my outdoor grapevine wreath.

We filled plain glass balls with sand, I made the tassels our of yarn, we used the gold - dipped feathers from our fall tour and little man and I made the salt dough starfish!

I bought the feathers from Amazon in the link above.

Kathy Goetz with Ocean Pointe Realty in Sea Girt, N.J. rides with essentials like a lockbox, tape measure and hammer, as well as a few tokens of good luck: a St. Jude prayer card and eagle feathers from an Indian reservation.

Poor dear had a few singed feathers from the Four Mile Canyon fire, but he was laughing anyhow, because Jr. has discovered that a bunch of political scientists don't like him because he wants to affect policy rather than publish papers.

They are also looking to source feathers from a free range sourcing programme in Poland.»

In fact, the London - based artist uses recycled feathers from all sorts of birds — pigeon, crow, duck, magpie, pheasant — gathered from a wide network of pigeon racers and farmers who actually send her feathers in the thousands by mail.

Over the past 5 years I have built up a network of pigeon racing enthusiasts who regularly send me feathers from the birds when they moult in spring and autumn.

In addition to pigeons, MccGwire collects feathers from other species, though these are usually from birds that seen as pests or game birds, and so are usually shot:

Further there is an installation made of blue silk threads in different hues, to which feathers from Nepali birds are attached.

A piece by Elizabeth Hoy, called «Fowl Game,» is an elegant tableau utilizing her father's cribbage set; a pile of turkey feathers from her parent's yard sits atop the board.

In order to catch the attention of its female counterpart, the male Bird - of - Paradise flips its cape of black feathers into a large ruff that surrounds its head, while also fanning out an iridescent azure blue skirt of feathers from its breast.

The crafting elements have been increased as well, you can scavenge wood from trees, feathers from birds» nests and certain plant types to produce items.

He's always been a bit eccentric and has known to ruffle the corporate stockholders feathers from time to time.

I've never been a fan of PVP type content so I would love to see a way to get feathers from story, quests, etc

During Festivale, confetti will rain from the sky making it difficult to distinguish the feathers from the confetti!

Catnip Tip «n Twirl is a wobbling cat toy that holds either live or dry catnip, and dangles tantalizing feathers from a flexible line connected to the top.

Feather picking is generally a neurotic disorder that is not started by plucking a few chest feathers from your bird.

4) Exotic birds live in tiny cages and are missing feathers from self mutilation due to stress.

Who wants to come home to find an expensive pair of shoes torn apart or feathers from pillows floating in the air?

She came from a divorced home, being mainly bonded to the husband who traveled out of town for several days at a time and she started plucking all her feathers from depression & loneliness.

In a rambling but highly charming manner, Old Filth followed Feathers from his birth in Malaya and unhappy fostering in Wales (one based on that most famous of colonial authors Rudyard Kipling) to a tranquil - seeming marriage and retirement in the peaceful English village Donhead St Ague.

Cut feathers from paper of fall colors (red, brown, orange, yellow) and stick the paper in between «slats» at the rear of the pinecone body.

She had begun ruffling feathers from the moment she took the school's helm in 1994.

This Shen is a wicked foe, hurling sharp, pointed feathers from his tail like a circus knife - thrower.

For this look, I used Model City Polish «s Dark Roast, feathers from a Ciaté nail art kit, and Digital Nails «s Spectraflair holo top coat for an extra holo finish.

The brown paillettes look like feathers from a distance while sequins and gems line the collar.

I had originally planned on making some by using cardboard for the base of the wings and cutting feathers from cereal boxes.

Cat - eye Sunnies — Tom Ford Lipstick — Revlon Pink Pout Silver Necklace and Bracelet — Target Blue Jumpsuit — Forever 21 Jean Jacket — Calvin Klein Shoes — thrifted from Value Village Handbag — DIY with bag from Value Village and feathers from Joann's Gold Anklet — my mom's (Bummer I had to give it back...)

The show opened with a series of long, lean maxi coats, some in speckled tweed, others sprouting feathers from the shoulders or hem.

Fossilized feathers from any animal are almost unknown, 11 and several complete, flat feathers that just happened to be at the slab / counterslab interface are even more remarkable.

And this past February Italian researchers reported that they had found evidence that 44,000 years ago Neandertals were harvesting wing feathers from a variety of birds at a site called Fumane Cave for decorative purposes.

«We have now studied the tissues from fish, frogs, and tadpoles, hair from mammals, feathers from birds, and ink from octopus and squids,» said Caitlin Colleary of Los Angeles, California, a doctoral student of geosciences in the College of Science at Virginia Tech and lead author of the study.

Lawrence Smart, secretary of the Smithsonian, gets two years» probation for buying art objects containing feathers from protected birds.

Co-author Lisa Tell summarizes: «This study was exciting because not only were we able to document the presence of a mite on feathers from two species of hummingbirds found in California, but we were also able to examine the positioning of live feather mites in situ with electron microscopy that is portable enough to use in the field.»

To do so, the researchers first collected down and contour feathers from 23 birds representing eight species that were nesting along two Arctic rivers.

Marra and his colleagues first determined the hydrogen isotope profile of feathers from museum specimens collected from Labrador and Newfoundland, Canada.

These 70 - million - year old specimens hail from the late Cretaceous period and they are far more diverse than other amber - trapped feathers from the same period.

The team collected feathers from nearly 700 birds and analyzed their carbon and hydrogen content.

USDA's Mike Begier and Allen Gosser extract feathers from the engines of the downed US Airways flight.

Samples of amber have also been found in Liaoning, containing preserved feathers from both birds and non-avian dinosaurs going back to the Cretaceous.

When his team popped feathers from a wide range of non-hummingbird species into the wind tunnel, each one started to vibrate at a certain speed and with a signature flutter.

So in the new study, Clark and colleagues put tail feathers from 14 species of «bee» hummingbirds — a rowdy group that includes the Anna's hummingbird — into a wind tunnel.

Scientists often wait weeks or even months before being allowed to send blood, hair, or feathers from the field back to their home labs — no matter how urgent the need for diagnostic tests.

The researchers collected and chemically analyzed feathers from nearly 10,000 extant bird species and found that 40 % of all bird species» plumage contains the carotenoid pigment — 25 % more than previously predicted.

Rubenstein analyzed the isotopic signatures of feathers from wintering warblers to reveal the location of their breeding sites.

The role of bull's - eye size in UV protection does not necessarily discount other environmental factors correlated with latitude; for example, ornithologists have argued that Gloger's rule arises because darker pigmentation comes from a compound that protects feathers from bacteria in the wet, humid tropics.

Yanhong Pan, associate research fellow at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and corresponding author of a paper describing the research and co-author Mary Schweitzer, NC State professor of biology with a joint appointment at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, examined feathers from an Eoconfuciusornis specimen taken from the Jehol Biota site in northern China, which is renowned for excellent fossil preservation.