Sentences with phrase «watch the birds on»

After a hard day of exploring what a better way to unwind with a book and a glass of wine, watching the birds on the balcony rails (we sit on the perimeter of the Grafton Bird Sanctuary), or wake to watch the sunrise with a cup of coffee, listening to the waves crashing on Stonehaven Bay, just beyond the trees.

We have enough space on our deck for it, and we, too, would enjoy the sound of water as we sit and watch the birds on a summer morning.

Not exact matches

During my visit, I got to put my finger on a feeder at a hummingbird sanctuary and watch the bird land on my hand.

Josh Bruno's grandfather enjoys the simpler things in life: Watching the Phillies on television, or feeding the many birds in his backyard.

Carol Scott, a web developer, fired off a tweet addressed to city officials, saying that she watched an elderly couple sidle their way around a Bird scooter turned over on a sidewalk.

Wilbur Wright once said, «You [can] sit on a fence and watch the birds, but if you really wish to learn [to fly], you must mount a machine and [learn] by actual trial.»

Oh, I knew the Harper Government ™ had nothing but contempt for the electorate — they're officially in contempt of Parliament — but as I watched him walking out on the reporters, I felt as if he were flipping me the bird.

Bird's proclivity for, well, most everything serves him well once again, as each of his songs are punctuated by his piercing whistle (if you haven't heard it, you should stop reading andgo watch this), always spot - on guitar playing and classically trained violin plucking and bowing.

I've been watching birds off and on for about 30 years.

See: Read a book, watch a bird hop around on a branch Touch: Craft, fold laundry, bake cookies Taste: Eat a meal without checking my phone, eat one of those cookies I baked Hear: Listen to music while staring out the window or at the ceiling (not at my phone) Smell: Hang out by the oven where my cookies are baking, light a candle

Therefore watch yourselves very carefully, so that you do not become corrupt and make for yourselves an idol, an image of any shape, whether formed like a man or a woman, or like any animal on earth or any bird that flies in the air...»

We watch the birds, we watch the trees, we watch what's happening around us and that reflects on who we are and what our role in the world is.

She cried out for months, «from the beginning of the harvest till the rain poured down from the heavens on the bodies,» keeping watch over her sons and fending away wild animals and birds (2 Samuel 21:10).

She liked listening to the birds sing and lambs bleating which she used to watch grazing on the hill - slopes.

Billows of smoke, listening to the birds chirp, watching the kids catch butterflies, admiring the beauty of the white blossoming flowers on the fence vines are part of the grilling atmosphere.

I myself spend quality time plodding down by the Thames, exercising away my continued reliance on too much of a good thing (plus, doing a bit of bird - watching.

Try stringing fresh cranberries and hanging them from a tree and watching the variety of birds that come to feast on them.

We dined on the sand — fed the birds, watched the waves and took in the ocean air.

Every minute or so he watches another apparently crazy young man on skis sail past, sometimes like a bird, sometimes like an anvil.

This fall more eyes than ever will be on the alert in the country's most unusual bird - watching program.

As I sat on the afterdeck, sometimes watching the birds, sometimes picking at the rust and coral in the cuts on my feet, a large moth lit beside me.

They were excited to say the least and one girl decided it would be a good idea to flip the bird to everyone watching on ESPNU.

I'd like to congratulate you on the outstanding article about bird - watching.

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I was alone in my father's house, watching the Wisconsin winter through the big picture windows — goldfinches and cardinals at the bird feeder, flights of mallards rising and circling and landing on the Menomonee across the road, icicles dripping from the eaves and then freezing again as the sun went down — but I wasn't seeing a bit of it.

He is watching the Roller Derby on Channel 5 — a match between the Detroit Devils and the Los Angeles T - Birds.

People on Nantucket swim and sail, search the beaches for seashells and driftwood, ride horseback, picnic, paint pictures, snap pictures, hike, bike, play golf, play tennis, play a highly scientific game of croquet, watch birds, band birds, take historical tours or browse in excellent museums and libraries.

Visit the Museum of Life and Science on Community Day, go on a bird watching hike, make African art, learn how to geocache and more.

But over the course of the week, I watched as the circle around each of those «bouquets» grew to include rocks that Annabel had brought up from the bottom of the lake, a little bit of loose moss from Adelaide's walk in the woods, and the bluejay feathers that Ezra found on the ground (after watching a majestic eagle swoop down to capture that beautiful bird).

Join the Boston Nature Center's Bird - a-thon Kick - Off Meeting, then head out on a woodcock watch (Mattapan)

At this age she may already know a fair amount about sexuality and reproduction simply by having watched the mommy goat nursing her baby at the zoo or by asking you about the broken bird's egg she found on the sidewalk.

Go apple picking Jump in a pile of leaves Make some autumn art Collect colourful fall leaves Collect seeds from plants in the garden Plant bulbs for next spring Make a bird feeder Make leaf prints Make pumpkin playdough Create an Autumn poem Go looking for spider webs Make a nature table with your Autumn finds Bake an apple pie Carve your own pumpkin Make Autumn sun catchers Go on a bat watch at dusk Make toffee apples Set up a scavenger hunt Collect sycamore seeds Grab an umbrella and go singing in the rain Throw a Halloween party Make an autumn wreath for your door Make a bug hotel Listen to the sound of leaves crunching under your feet Collect conkers Collect pinecones Collect twigs Make hot chocolate Draw or paint some autumn still life Attend harvest festival Make apple crisps / chips Remember what you're thankful for Take pictures of all the different colours you can find in a woodland Make leaf rubbings Go stargazing Have an autumn picnic Look for a full moon Go trick or treating Try apple bobbing Make apple sauce Fly a kite Make a windsock Dry orange slices Roast pumpkin seeds Make Halloween biscuits Make a rain catcher Build an indoor fort Collect acorns Donate old woollens and coats to a charity Help clear leaves from the lawn

While that could be true, it is also quite likely that the child is watching the birds and wondering how they can fly or they may be looking at the leaves on a tree as they drop to the ground wondering what makes the leaves fall from the trees.

As we sat down on the rocky beach in the balmy 70 degrees and watch the birds, ferries and helicopters (that's what was out there), I began to overhear this mom trying to discipline her child.

They also love watching bird TV from the windows and taking a walk around the garden on their harness and leash.

Go bird watching, be on the lookout for any marine wildlife, or check out the Milky Way on whatever side of the world you're holidaying in.

Jayce loved watching the birds and rolling on the picnic blanket (we had another big blanket).

Looking for the perfect small binoculars to accompany you on your bird watching trips?

Opening a field notebook at random, the Yale University evolutionary ornithologist puts his finger on the day — Nov. 17, 1974 — when he first went bird - watching at the ocean and added 20 new species to his «life list,» bringing the count to 182.

«Their other scholarly research focuses on the proper hydration of canned tuna and the physics of bird watching.»

Walk or row up to the otherworldly tufa towers — formed underwater by the mixing of calcium - rich freshwater springs with dissolved carbonates in the lake — or watch thousands of migratory birds feast on flies and brine shrimp.

Then the researchers marked a yellow spot on the black feathers of each bird's neck and watched them again.

There's something like 80 million people in the U.S. according the recent surveys that are interested in birds in one way or another, you know, feed birds or watch birds, take their kids to a wildlife refuge and yet we keep hearing about more and more reports of declines in birds, you know, doubling of the extinction rates in birds globally in the last 50 years and right now we are on the verge of what I call the third renaissance of bird conservation, first being the Audubon movement at the turn of the century, the second being the Rachel Carson movement of the»60s and third we are on the verge of it right now.

They watched birds from the beginning of the nest - building process, and discovered that the parakeets carry sticks to the nest site by landing on the lines, and then walking to the spot where the line meets the pole, instead of flying there directly.

Anyone that has watched my TEDx DeExtinction talk on the Passenger Pigeon knows that the Dodo bird is the bird that started my adolescent passion for de-extinction.

With the bustling of cars, pollution in the air, and irate individuals inhabiting the city, I can understand why I usually try to block out the outside world when I run, but this time, let into the moment of jogging down the street, I began to see a new vision: crisp air caused a puffy cloud to form with each exhale, and with the drifting leaves on the sidewalk, I began to perceive the beautiful birds sweeping through the city, people - watching from the trees.

This month you have been focusing on your single breath, a single sound, or a single thought, but now instead of watching one bird sing, open your eyes and all your senses to the entire forest in which the bird resides.

Bird watching is something you can do all by yourself, but it is also a great opportunity to meet other people while on vacation.

We stared at Larry Bird as we chowed down and watched good old American football on TV.

She loves to sit in the bow window in my kitchen and watch the birds and chipmunks at the feeders I have hanging on a tree right... Continue reading →