Springtime Wonders Celebrated with Garden Birds in Spring
by guest blogger, Elmer Prather
My latest puzzle is a 500-piece titled Garden Birds In The Spring by Jane Shasky. Before I spend the time putting a puzzle together, I must have a connection to it. My connection to this puzzle is my love of birds and pastel colors and this puzzle has plenty of both.
When I first saw this puzzle, I was impressed by the ten scenes featuring birds in different settings. This is a well thought out puzzle using many different types of birds and many different colorful trees displaying their beautiful Spring blossoms.
I love all the pastel colors used in this puzzle to display the birds and their surroundings. The birds are sitting on unique birdhouses or perched on the limbs of several types of trees that are blooming in their Spring splendor. One of the birds is a robin that is sitting on a dogwood tree branch.
Some of the bird houses have bird nests each displaying several small blue eggs appearing to be waiting for the adult birds to come back to the nest and sit on the eggs while the baby birds inside continue to grow. On average it takes twelve to fourteen days for Robins eggs to hatch. Once the chicks are hatched the female bird removes the shells from the nest. Each clutch has four to seven eggs and Robins can have up to three clutches each year. Chicks fledge the nest in about fourteen to sixteen days. It is good that they can produce so many chicks each year because the chicks are in danger of being consumed by snakes, other birds, and animals during this incubation period and while they are fledging.
Over the years, I have built and installed several birdhouses and have put up many bird feeders to encourage birds to come into my yard for food and to build nests.
This puzzle makes me wish for a quick Spring so I can watch birds stop at my bird feeders for food during the season. They are so beautiful to watch, especially the robins.
Elmer Prather
Canton, Georgia
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