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The rich greens and browns of the woods nearly sparkle in the crisp morning air. At least, to me they do. I wander somewhat aimlessly through the trees and bushes. The sun pokes through openings in the canopy of newly bloomed leaves above me. The sweet aroma of wood and grass fills me up. A few birds can be spotted in the branches. Blue Jays and Cardinals.
A log cottage slowly comes into view. After wandering so far, Polly must be wondering where I am, so I push through the solid oak door and step inside.
Immediately the four women rush toward me with worry marks on their foreheads. They have always been so protective of me, I don’t know why. When I ask, they simply shake their heads and go about their business, scrubbing pots or cutting roots or . I am engulfed in hugs, but the praise doesn’t last long.
Erosia hands me a pile of dirty clothes. “Go do the wash, dear. When you come back you may have noon meal.” And with that I am pushed right out the door again and the door is shut behind me.
“I wonder what could possibly be going on in there.” I think aloud. I shouldn’t complain, I have been willing to do the harder chores, but all I am even allowed to do is the wash and the sweeping and the gathering. I would like to prepare the meals, to freshen up my skills for when I am wed, but my asking is not tolerated in my home. I gave up two years ago, and settled with preoccupying my mind with other things, such as daydreaming of princes and talking frogs.
I plop down on the side of the brook that we use to wash in. My birthday is tomorrow. I guess I’ll daydream about that. I hold a yellow tunic under the water.
Tomorrow I turn sixteen. I’ve lived with these four women for as long as I can remember. Ever since I was ten they told me that my parents died of the sickness when I was two years old. So I came to live with my mother’s closest friends. Now I realize it’s silly to daydream about princes, since I am a forest girl, and I will marry a forest boy. Only princesses marry princes. Everyone knows that.
I dunk a blue skirt into the cold water and scrub. None of the neighboring boys catch my eye. Most are too young. The older ones excite over their muscles and tanned arms. They boast of their looks and strength.
I finish up the wash of skirts and tunics and head back toward the cottage. The sun is high in the sky, directly above me. It is baking my back to a crisp. Lugging the pile of wet clothes, I go around our house out back to hang up the clothes. As soon as I see my heirloom bench pushed up against the cottage in the patch of sunlight, I remember that I forgot my studies this morning. In the warmer days, I sit and read on that bench because it’s in a warm, peaceful spot. In the morning of every day I must study the books that have been passed down to me from my mother. There are books on arithmetic, language, history, and the ancestors of the royal family. As for me, I have never even caught a glimpse of any king, queen, or anyone royal, but I expect they are awfully stuck up and rude.
I hang up the clothes on the thin rope we have that runs about fifteen feet from one tree to the other, and go inside to see what I’ve been set to eat.

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I know I used ‘I’ a lot, but I don’t know how to get rid of them without my writing sounding like crap. Suggestions are welcome

my area has a few set of cardinals and blue jays what are some ways to accommodate these types of birds so that they will stay around for along time. types of foods / housing suggestions will help?

For the Winter, my family places feeders around the backyard. We get a variety of birds like blue jays and cardinals. We also realized that we are getting some morning doves, but the feeders we have are too small, a small house shaped feeder and three stocking feeders, is there a certain type of feeder that i need, is there anyway i could make a simple feeder for the "big birds". Any advice would be nice.

I have a house in town. It has a bunch of old growth trees. We used to have Cardinals, Blue jays, Woodpeckers. and squirrels come around. Now we have a couple of stupid hawks picking off the birds and small critters. I know they have to eat but not in my backyard. I also have a small dog that I’m worried about. How do I get rid of the hawks?

I just heard it not long ago, around 5 in the morning. I’ve heard the call before, and my memory seems to be connecting it with an owl I once saw… though, I can’t find any lists of owls in my area to search for sound clips, so it’s difficult. :/

I live in a fair sized industrial city, in Southern Ontario… so it’s not often I see more than house wrens, starlings, blue jays, mourning doves, pigeons, cardinals, sea gulls and crows. Our wildlife is very limited.

Anyway, it’s still very dark and the morning chorus hasn’t been sounding for long. Started up shortly after I heard this call. I want to say the bird has a good chance of being nocturnal, but really… I don’t know enough to make such assumptions.

I’m going to try to describe this in as much detail as possible.

The call would last for about 6 seconds, pause for closer to 10, then it would sound again.
The sound it would make was somewhere between a very repetitive gentle hoot and a coo.
It repeated quickly, maybe 4 times per second, no pause between the sounds.
The pitch was a little bit higher than a mourning dove’s.
The volume was pretty low. Very eerie. I’m not sure if the bird was distant, or if it was just soft.
If my memory serves me right, then the other times in the past that I heard the call would have been between 9 PM and Midnight.

That’s… about all I can give you.

Any ideas whatsoever will help. Maybe it’s not an owl at all? I’ll be looking up every suggestion to try and confirm.

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I live in Florida on the east coast and have noticed a dramatic decline in the amount of birds that visit my garden. Has anyone else noticed this? I used to get loads of grackles, blue jays and cardinals but at the moment all I get is mourning doves. Does anyone know why this is? I’ve never had this before in the 12 years I’ve lived here, it’s very disturbing. (I’m still putting the nuts/feed out for them but it’s always eaten by the morning time by the raccoons).

How do I get rid of flocks of black birds?

I have two poles with a total of 8 feeders on them. For the first few weeks of May & June, I had cardinals, gold finches, Downy woodpeckers, purple house finches, nuthatches and chickadees.

But all of a sudden the grackles and starlings took over and all I ever see are occasional blue jays who aren’t afraid of the "black plague."

Is there a way to selectively get rid of certain birds? I use a variety of feed including safflower. Peanuts and sunflower seeds are gone in one day. Shiny, sparkling things up in the trees have no effect. I don’t want to put up a fake owl as I will get NO birds!

So, now what?

This is getting expensive!
I live in a residential neighborhood so I don’t dare use all the fire power suggested.
MsLucy!

I didn’t invite the black birds. Until this year, after 20 or so years of feeders, all the birds were the "nice" variety. Many colors, songs, etc. Hummingbirds too.

I think the black birds weasled their way in here.

My idea was that maybe someone knew of seed combination that they couldn’t stand.
Don’t get so bent out of shape!

I moved about 2 years ago and started feeding the birds shortly after that. I had a nice mixture of birds… chickadees, nuthatches, sparrows, juncos, blue jays, cardinals, gold finches (lots of them). So this summer I increased the number of bird feeders and types of food that I offer… thistle, black oil and mixed (each in their separate feeder). I also have suet & a ‘suet ball’ from the meat department out there.

I’ve always had a bunch of birds and now… I’m lucky if I see a couple of nuthatches and woodpeckers a day! What in the heck happened? Any ideas and/or suggestions for what I should do?
YES birds do fly South… BUT the birds that I specifically mentioned do not leave Pennsylvania for the winter! I fed these birds last winter and this summer!

I’ve noticed I have numerous types of birds visiting or living in my yard. Just today I saw cardinals, blue jays, house wrens, a brown thrasher, bluebirds, hummingbirds, some sort of large, red headed woodpecker (with a round head, no crest), mockingbirds, sparrows, robins and a couple more which I have no idea what they are. I also have a catbird living close by.

And so I started wondering what sort of bird I’d like to be if I could be one, and I think I’d like to be an owl of some sort. I think it would be cool to glide through the trees like a sentinel of the night or perch on a very high limb, just a silhouette against the Moon.

What about you? What bird would you like to be, if any?

Thanks,

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