Sentences with phrase «winged blackbirds»

Thousands of Dead Birds Falling from the Sky The AP reports that «Environmental service workers finished picking up the carcasses on Sunday of about 2,000 red - winged blackbirds that fell dead from the sky in a central Arkansas town.»

A mass migration would deliver more ticks and likely more disease to Canada in coming years, in the form of beautiful waves of song sparrows and wrens, red - winged blackbirds, and warblers

Usually I had seen one or two intermixed with red - winged blackbirds or I see a mélange of starlings, red - wing, yellow - headed, and Brewers blackbirds murmuring about the refuge in large numbers.

Artist Statement «Red - winged Blackbirds are found throughout the Chesapeake Bay Gateways Network.

Male red - winged blackbirds arriving first like military heralds with their red and yellow epaulets, then yellow goldfinches, and sparrows: the seedeaters.

They also looked at brains from five red - winged blackbirds.

He lingers to admire the wintry landscape, to puzzle over some animal tracks, to listen to red - winged blackbirds, all as if it were a balmy May afternoon.

Given the opportunity, male red - winged blackbirds are polygynous — they mate with more than one female.

So although female red - winged blackbirds that nest in a good habitat may well have to raise their chicks without help, they are more likely to have mated with fitter males.

Red - winged blackbirds do so for the right to forage on a male's territory, and Adelie penguins exchange sex for stones to build their nests.

That young redbud tree delicately budding in my front yard in early spring, that golden haze in which the rolling hills close to my home are bathed on a summer morning, that lovely pond on my walk home from work out of whose rushes a red - winged blackbird almost invariably flies up as I pass by in early autumn, that winter belt of trees across the street transformed by an ice storm into a glittering fairyland — all those beauties of which nature is so achingly and serendipitously full are likewise my modest sources of healing and renewal.

You need only be a «new man» during the bad times — at least if you are a red - winged blackbird.

Our photo of the day was taken in Priddis, a hamlet in Alberta, Canada, and shows a male red - winged blackbird freshly back from the hunt....

And now, all this talk about our cozy woods and whites farmhouse bedroom is making me sleepy, and I'm boutsta curl up under that chunky wool blanket and watch a very serious and informative documentary on the migration of the red - winged blackbird.

Not exact matches

«Is it politically reprehensible, while we are all groaning, or at any rate ought to be groaning, under the shackles of the capitalist system, to point out that life is frequently more worth living because of a blackbird's song, a yellow elm tree in October, or some other natural phenomenon which does not cost money and does not have what the editors of left - wing newspapers call a class angle?