Snout's On Patrol Analysis

Birds appear frequently throughout the story, especially in times of crisis. The birds often present themselves as omens for dangers that lie ahead. For instance, when Robert's team takes a wrong turn, "the fog is full of noises" of birds (80). Then the birds fly out of the ditch and disappear. Robert and Poole know that "[t]here must be something terribly wrong...but neither one knew how to put it into words. The birds, being gone, had taken some mysterious presence with them. There was an awful sense of void--as if the world had been emptied" (81). The birds return and when Robert nears the collapsing dike, "one of the birds [flies] up and cut[s] across Robert's path" as if it is trying to prevent him from going any further. Robert does not heed the warning and almost dies in the sinking mud.

Every week, Oregonian Pat Johnston makes a 45-mile pilgrimage to Chehalem Mountain, she is on a serious mission. Her journey doesn't revolve around hiking, climbing, or mountain biking, however, she comes for the birds. During her weekly excursions, Johnston circles the mountain. Frequently stopping to check on the well-being of more than 30 bluebird nest boxes. And their

If there is a single attractive thing about Aberdeen, it would be the 98 square miles of surrounding estuaries, tidelands, and marshes that attract shorebirds by the hundreds of thousands. They come every April and May to rest and feed for the long trip north to their arctic and subarctic nesting areas. (165)

The wetlands of spring welcomes migrating shorebird species, including sandpipers, stilts, plovers, dunlins, curlews, and avocets. The colors of summer come alive with an array of birds atop trees with beautiful sounds filling the air. These include black-chinned, calliope, broad-tailed, red-tailed hawk, white-crowned sparrow, tanager and rufous hummingbird. Cranes and geese make their appearance in early fall, coyotes, northern shovelers dabble on the water, javelina, and mule deer idle or prance about in the open meadow, and wild turkeys trek in their roosting

Feeding wild birds is a big business that Americans spend over 4 billion dollars on each year and 2 billion more on feeders. My bird café is small, and my feeder isn’t always filled and ready for a bird and squirrel all day buffet. I’m more of a let it get empty and then I’ll try to fill it in a couple days bird feeder.

The last time I was here, a juvenile bald eagle was flying above the trail as I arrived. Once I went to the creek, an adult bald eagle flew just beyond me straight north along the creek bank. Just south of us were three deer grazing in the stream.

The first examination will be a brief assessment, firstly to make it is safe to approach the

On 06/04/16 at 6:25pm, I was dispatched to 190 Dana Ave on dog at large, possible owner known. I arrived at the house, I saw three Chihuahua loose in the front yard. Dog owner Roland Erhardt was sitting on the front porch. I spoke to Mr. Erhardt in regards to his dogs being loose. Mr. Erhardt admitted that his dogs were running loose around the neighbor. I advised Mr. Erhardt that his dogs will have to stay confined in the general area of his home. Mr. Erhardt become belligerent and started to use vaguer language. I asked Mr. Erhardt if he had a state issued identification. Mr. Erhardt stated he did not. I asked for Mr. Erhardt personal information. Mr. Erhardt complied. I requested that Columbus Police Department be contact to verified

A Great Blue Heron navigated the shoreline and several Mallards in search of breakfast, which coincidently sounded like a good idea. The views of the lake at not only this locale, but at each of our stops were excellent. There isn’t a proverbially bad seat in the house for observing waterfowl.

After watching them fly for half an hour, she starts to form a connection for the birds. The passage says, “I stood with great difficulty, bashed by the unexpectedness of this beauty, and my spread lungs roared. My eyes pricked from the effort of trying to trace a feathered dot’s passage through a weft of limbs” (Dillard 2). Dillard is surprised at what the birds are doing. At first the birds were moving slowly, and then all of a sudden, the birds started to move faster and faster into the woods. She stood there watching all the birds, even the stragglers, vanish into the trees. Dillard broke down after this. The birds caused her to change her views, and she feels as if she has to take care of them. They are a part of her

I was asked to setup a Bird Sweep at T-Pit before relocation of reclamation stockpiles. Stockpiles need to be moved further north to access the sand underneath.

Nesting is vital to the repopulation to these birds, therefore building manmade nesting sights is a great possibility. The birds like higher tree to keep away from predators but if there were manmade prevention systems it would make many more places an opportunity to nest. Spreading the populations boundaries would increase the likelihood of increase.

Severely restricted inside the barren cages, the birds are unable to engage in nearly any of their natural habits, including nesting, perching, walking, dust bathing, foraging, or even spreading their wings” (HSUS, 2009).

He wonders why the birds are just waiting in the sky as if they are waiting for a command, why they are restless, and he thinks it is strange that they are little birds and they are the type of the birds that normally keep to their own territory and don’t have a history of attacking people . When he looks out toward the coast, he sees the birds flocking in his direction and he believes that for some odd reason, they are going to come down to the

there also felt withr’d and damaged so they left. This left the area without birds singing.