Birds & Blooms - USA (2021-02)

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FEBRUARY I MARCH 2021 birdsandblooms.com 23 Spring Awakening Readers watch their yards come to life as a new season arrives. The ...

Springtime is exciting after a long, cold Ohio winter. Migrants are in their best colors, especially the males, and getting some ...

FEBRUARY I MARCH 2021 birdsandblooms.com 25 Each spring cardinals and house finches pull the blossoms off my purple leaf plum tr ...

26 birdsandblooms.com FEBRUARY I MARCH 2021 BIRD TALES During the first few weeks of the pandemic, I took this photo. A trumpete ...

For the last two years, palm warblers have landed in the same Norway spruces about 15 feet from my patio. It’s so lucky because ...

Pairing Up SURPRISING FACTS about the quirky and sweet 8 courtship displays that birds perform. BY KIRSTEN SCHRADER ...

A pair of sandhill cranes in the midst of their famous mating dance. ...

30 birdsandblooms.com FEBRUARY I MARCH 2021 Showing Love with Food A cedar waxwing pair (left) cozies up on a branch, passing a ...

FEBRUARY I MARCH 2021 birdsandblooms.com 31 Taking Care This mated pair of mourning doves preens each other’s feathers in an end ...

32 birdsandblooms.com FEBRUARY I MARCH 2021 F R O M L E F T :^ N E A L M IS H L E R ;^ M IR A L E X /B O T H G E T T Y I M A G E ...

Falling Head Over Talons In a ritual called cartwheeling, mated bald eagles lock their talons in flight and free-fall through th ...

34 birdsandblooms.com FEBRUARY I MARCH 2021 6 Some pairs go their separate ways come migration season but reunite when it’s time ...

FOR LIFE These birds are in it for the long haul. Laysan albatross California condor Whooping crane Bald eagle Black vulture Atl ...

BY LUKE MILLER Save money, plant sooner and choose from a wider variety of flowers and veggies when you sow seeds indoors. SPRIN ...

FEBRUARY I MARCH 2021 birdsandblooms.com 37 O N F O K U S /G E T T Y I M A G E S ...

L E F T :^ R O S A M A R ÍA F E R N Á N D E Z R Z ;^ A B O V E :^ V G A J IC /B O T H G E T T Y I M A G E S Grow^ seedlings^ in ...

FEBRUARY I MARCH 2021 birdsandblooms.com 39 Teach children how flowers and veggies grow by planting seeds. Common blooms and veg ...

A B O V E ,^ R IG H T :^ JU L IA D E M E N T E V A /G E T T Y I M A G E S he recommends plastic trays that have been washed with ...