High
Flyin' Fun
Watch this page because I have some high flyin'
fun headed this way. You might even find puzzles or games to play. If I
run across any strange bird facts I'll add them here, too.
Our First Contest
Did you see any little butterflies on your way
here? There are 15 of them scattered around these pages. If you can
find all 15 of them and input the words into the url on the browser bar
you can win a free graphic as a souvenier of your visit to this NEW site.
An example: If you found the letters b-h-i-s-e-r-o-u-d you could unscramble
them to read "birdhouse". You would then type birdhouse.html
after the 8509 in the url at the top of the page. Make sure there is a
/ before the words you add. Hint: there are two words but you will type
them as one in the url. I should give you a butterfly net for your hunt.
Here
you go! I found one. Happy hunting!
Are you ready for a little bit harder game? Then come along on a walk in the woods and play my new game.
Projects Even Kids Can Do
A variety of easy to find objects can be covered
with peanut butter and rolled in bird seed. If you cut a hole in a small
paper milk carton your feeder
will look like a bird house. Just cut your hole, cover with peanut butter
and roll in bird seed. Pine cones are commonly used for this. This is an
easy project to do with kids on cold winter days.
Bird Facts:
An adult bobwhite quail eats nearly 15,000 seeds a day.
Adult martins can eat 2,000 insects a day. I wish they lived near me!
The Great Blue Heron has a wingspan of 7 feet and stands 4 feet tall.
The oldest puple martin colony recorded was in Greencastle, Penn. It was started in the year 1840.
The Peregrine Falcon has been clocked at 175 miles per hour!
When geese fly in a V formation they can travel 45 miles per hour.
Goldfinches nest late in the season because they wait for thistle plants to release their seeds and use the down from the plants for building their nests.
The Willow Ptarmigan grows feathers on it's feet so it can walk on snow. The feathers act like snow shoes!
Cardinals have 28 different calls and songs.
The tongue of a woodpecker is twice the legnth of its bill.
The number of feathers on a bird varies widely. A humingbird has about 1,500 feathers while a swan has over 25,000.
There are 46 species of birds that don't fly but only one of those species is wingless- the kiwi bird of New Zealand.
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