The Little Bluebird and the New Wacom Tablet
My daughter, Amanda gave me my birthday present today…about a whole month early! Not complaining here at all though…I LOVE it! This is what I worked on this evening to incorporate into my Wildlife Management Plan I have to write for my graduate class. It was a perfect evening to stay indoors and doodle and with this headache I’ve had for about 4 days and counting now, everything rhymes, so I wrote a poem to go with my picture. Enjoy!
There was a bird dressed in feathers of blue
That sang in the morn when the day was new
It feasted on insects
that ate the weeds
or pollinated flowers
so they’d have seeds
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But that day they sprayed
The weeds all died
The insects went hungry
And the bluebirds tried
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To find food for their young
But there was none to be had
They searched high and low
But the outcome was bad.
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The foodchain was altered
With herbicide
The insects left
And the baby birds died.
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The birds of blue
Didn’t come the next year
For fear that their food
Would all disappear.
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Improving the prairie
Is a very good goal
But the point here to learn
Is that all things have a role
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To play in the food web
They all interact
Survival of species
Depends on that fact.
***Text and photographs copyright 2011 by Cynthia Brast. No part of this story may be reproduced in any form without the expressed written consent of the author.