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But what about the juvenile female Cardinal that is daily visiting the feeder? She looks a bit scruffy and appears unfinished. Her bill lacks the bright orange of adults, and her feathers are not yet sleek. She’s full size however, as big as her parents who have nothing to do with her now.
I call her “Young Miss.”
Did she find shelter udder one of the giant branches of the maple tree in the yard? Only a bit of shelter would suffice to protect her from the pelting rain. Nature provides many shelters for birds.
Before, at this time of the year, tropical storms with the potential to develop into hurricanes have been spoken and written of with dread. Not t)iis year. As a way of replenishing the ground water, hurricanes would be almost welcome.
Birds and hurricanes are a fascinating combination * A hurricane is like a giant doughnut in which high winds surround an eye, a place; of calm in the center of the storm. Depending on the size of the storm, the eye of a hurricane can be quite large. '
Pelagic birds, that live their lives on the open sea, are often trapped in the calm of the eyfi of a hurricane. There they justrgo on with what they normally do: dive for fish and rest on calm waters. They can’t escape; that would mean fighting formidable and destructive winds.
The Sooty Tern is a sleek and elegant bird with distinctive black and white plumage. Terns dive for fish and are the epitome of grace in flight. ^In September 1876, a hurricane carried these terns from £he Bahamas and the Florida Keys, their natural range,! to New England where they were dumped as the storm disintegrated over land.
Petrels are distinctly pelagic birds that spend thfcir entire lives in the air andnm the water of open seas. These
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