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Hi Gang, its
me. Peewee!
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Peewee likes the fall season
Once
again the crispness of the fall nights is telling Pretty Girl and me that
breeding season is upon us. Winter will soon follow? Ugh!#%%
Not yet! Oh well.
This
will be my fifth winter at Heart of
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I really like the fall season! |
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The tree leaves turn all different colors: reds, oranges, yellows, and greens. |
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Colored leaves really stand out as pretty pictures that are
accented by the greens of the pine trees that remain green all year. That's
probably why they call those trees evergreens.
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But we have a different evergreen
tree around here that turns yellow in the late fall
and its needles drop off. It is called a tamarack tree. |
It
really likes the moist ground we have in our wetland areas.
Not far
from my home is the nesting place for over 400 Bald Eagle families. We often
have these other big birds with 8-foot long wings fly over our house.
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soar high in the sky. |
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They are so pretty to watch.
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Sometimes they tumble and roll and play way up high in
the sky. It is like watching a gymnastics show.
Did you know that eagles are the national birds of the
But in the spring, we don't like to see the eagles because they
like to eat our little chicks. To protect our babies we keep them inside the
basement of the ranch house until they can protect themselves. And when we let
the babies outside, they always have an adult bird, a papa, with them to
protect them.
Fall is the time for football games. When visitors see me and my
neighbors run and play they say that we should teach the Vikings how to run.
When we play we can tip our little wings toward the ground while we are
running. That gives us balance to make very fast and very sharp turns. People
call us the best running backs. What does that mean?
In the fall the oak trees drop acorns which are seeds for new
oak trees. Every year we forget what acorns do to our stomachs and we eat some.
George and Pat laugh when they see the little piles of purple poop we leave behind
after eating acorns. They like to say it's Viking season again because of the
purple color.
I like the end of the summer and the early fall.
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The caterpillars go into cocoons and a little later magically appear as pretty butterflies. |
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My cousins and I like to try to catch the butterflies as they
fly through our yard.
Fall is the time of year when we start to grow our winter
feathers. Actually they start as pinfeathers in the summer but now show up as
dark black and brown feathers on our coats.
Fall is when Juju drops her air sack and starts to strut around
the yard making a loud booming sound like a tympani drum. We call it drumming
season. Our neighbors across the lake think that the Ranch owners are operating
their heavy equipment in the upper meadows all night. But really it is our 250
ladies trying to get our attention and to tell us it is time to start making
eggs.
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Did you know that our eggs weigh almost a pound and are green in
color? They are. Actually our eggs shells have many layers of different colors:
blues, greens, whites and all kinds of different shades. Some of our ladies lay
smooth eggshells and others lay bumpy eggshells. Juju lays deep green colored
eggs with few bumps.
The coming of fall means the end of our being able to play in
the mud and water puddles. We like to sit in the water and splash and play. We
will sit up and fluff out our feathers and shake them until they are clean.
Fall is my favorite season. It has pretty colors, cool nights
and warm days. It is great living here on the Ranch!
Heh Kids, what do you like best about the fall season?
I have my own e-mail address, so write me at peewee@emumagic.com and let me
know what you like.
Stop back soon for more of my
stories!
See Ya Soon?
Peewee!
Just click on the story title you want to
read.
Peewee Finds A Home
Peewee's Fall Story
Peewee's October Story
Peewee's Quiz
Peewee's Puppy Visits Minneapolis
Peewee is part of the Family of Ratites
Pictures of Peewee's Emu Family
Peewee's Crossword Puzzle-Young Kids
Peewee's Crossword Puzzle-Older Kids
Help Peewee Get Home
Peewee's Word Puzzles for Kids
Returning
Barney to the Wild
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