In Cage 15, there was a bald eagle. Regal and upright, imperial and intimidating, it stood on a log, paying me no heed as I scribbled adjectives. A sign beside on the wooden cage beside the barred window called her Spirit and informed the reader why she had been committed to the asylum. She’d dislocated her left wing in 1989. Beside her on a little table sat the corpse of white field mouse, she did not deign to acknowledge its existence either, at least not in my presence. The free birds noisily inhabiting the woods and circling the lake beyond her cage were not ignored. I had seen bald eagles before, but never in captivity or in their immediate vicinity. I had never heard one before. It was unnerving. Like a laugh, the eagle’s screech had …show more content…
With its pointed face red and beak bone white, it takes the appearance of some grotesque skinless atrocity ready to jump at a viewer in a horror film. The vulture, I never looked for its name, was busy when I arrived. Busy with its white field mouse, holding the carcass down with its claws, while snipping at its fur with dull scissor beak. I watched it find the tail of the mouse and apply a series of deliberate pecks at its base. Once the tail was separated from the body, the vulture slurped it up like a spaghetti noodle. This disgusted me, but I kept watching. Spirit the bald eagle was a scavenger too in the wild and that a near identical white mouse waited in her cage. Her sharp beak would surely not have allowed the slurping of the tail, but regardless of the method, the act was the same. As hard as I tried however I could not equate the two. My mind would simply not allow the white domed aristocrat and the red faced villain to share a common category. Actions and motives indistinguishable, the two creatures somehow generate incompatible emotions in humans. The bald eagle can fly on banners, mark song sheets, and lead men to battle. The vulture cannot. A soaring eagle evokes a sense of gallantry, greatness. A vulture circling is a symbol of foreboding and …show more content…
First to a hunchbacked Harris Hawk, who would once hunted in a large pack, and now in its solitary confinement stared forlornly at the dirt. Then on to three kestrels, each cursed with injured wings. The second of these, a female larger than the males, charged at me when I appeared in its window. Repulsed by the metal bars and disappointed at its failure to pluck out my eyes, it resigned itself to watch me through the gaps between the cage’s wooden boards. Before leaving I went back to the cage of the eagle, I admired her posture, her dignity, the way she wore the white cap like a crown. I heard again her reply to the birds chirping, singing, flying free outside her cage. This screech seemed even more hostile than the last. I did not want to hear
Mrs. Wright lived her entire marriage alone, confined to a tiny house in the outskirts of town, with her only true companion a bird who sung to her, she loved that bird like it was her child. Mrs. Wright blamed her husband for her loneliness because he wouldn’t allow her to sing in church, have friends over, or have a telephone to even call people occasionally. Mr. Wright made her feel as though she was in solitary confinement in a prison this was not a home. At least she had her canary to keep her company, well until he took that away from her too.
Kelly, Joseph. The Seagull Reader - Stories. 2nd ed. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2008. 215-21. Print.
Bald eagles are the birds that represent the U.S. as a strong, and fearless nation. There are eight different types of eagles in the world. There is the Steller Sea Eagle, the Sanford Sea Eagle, Pallas’s Fish Eagle, African Fish Eagle, White-bellied Sea eagle, and the two most common ones to see are the White-tailed eagle and the Bald eagle. But there are still so many more different types of eagles in the world and still some to be discovered.
Although it was her day off, Eliana Bookbinder put on her uniform and asked her boss if she could call the Wildlife Center of Virginia once the bird was found. She was told that he would have to check with the Goshen superintendent. So Bookbinder headed out on her search for what she thought at the time was a hawk. But when she finally found the injured bird, she realized it was actually a bald eagle.
John James Audubon and Annie Dillard capture the true essense of life itself as they describe flocks of migrating birds in their books Ornithological Biographies and Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. Both passages stress the importance of taking time out of every day to appreciate the sheer beauty of the world. However, both authors utilize different rhetorical devices to illustrate the birds and the different effects the creatures had on them. Although his piece is lengthier than Dillard’s, Audubon paints a picture of the birds in a more scientific manner.
To start off, we will start to talk about Who is the caged bird and why. I think that according to the story, “The Long Walk Home”
It was only less than a century ago that our nation's bird, the bald eagle, was almost hunted to the edge of extinction. Thankfully, conservation efforts were realized and now, after many years of hard work, the bald eagle's population has once again become stable. However, this might not last long as the rising wind industry could potentially wipe out all the hard work done from the conservation efforts. This is what David Yarnold, the author of "Don't Throw Bald Eagles Under the Bus," is worried about, and he expresses his viewpoint through various literary devices including allusions, hard facts, and appeal to emotions.
The imagery used in describing the hunting methods of the weasel are extremely descriptive and provide ample imagery for the readers. “…splitting the jugular vein at the throat or crunching the brain at the base of the skull…” Dillard first encounters the animal near Hollins Pond and
As Cole stared at the tiny bodies, sadness flooded through him. The sparrows were so frail, helpless, and innocent. They hadn’t deserved to die. Then again, what right did they have to live? This haunted Cole. Did the birds’ insignificant little existences have any meaning at all? Or did his (82)?
At the bird’s appearance and apparent vocal articulation, he is at first impressed, then saddened. He compares this evening visitor as only another friend which will soon depart, just as “other friends have flown before” (58). But the raven again echoes quite aptly his one-word vocabulary, thus leading the man on to think more deeply about the possibilities that exist at this juncture. Somewhere deep inside him, he has realized that it doesn’t matter what question he poses, the bird will respond the same.
This is page 1 and it is August 15, 2020 the time is 7:02 A.M. I am now adventuring Yellowstone National park.There are many spectacular things here at Yellowstone such as these amazing geysers they are so pretty, but you have to be careful because if the boiling water touches you you could get seriously burned.It takes for a geyser to erupt 60-110 minutes.After I went and watched the beautiful geysers I sat and watch the female bald eagle sit on its baby to keep it warm you have to be very careful when you are watching them because if she spots you she will come after you and try to claw you.She is very still and looks very death-like because she isn't moving at all.As I keep adventuring I stumble across a bear track I look aroundvery intently at my surroundings.
Swooping down, eager to catch their dinner were white and grey seagulls. Mocking us humans in their flight, they circled around the wooden benches, patiently waiting for their unsuspecting prey. They stared at the ground in deep concentration. The second something hit the
He seemed the happiest when we are all in pain. He called down Jake next and his procedure was the same, the rough men pinning him under water, the same wails of pain. After his flash of light, there was a large bald eagle in his place. The eagle had broad wings and a sharp beak. The only thing that made it different from regular birds was that he had one white talon while the other was a normal yellow. Jake sat calmly and collected as if he knew that trying to escape would result in pain. Of course, he was right. His escape plan would get him about ten feet, then he would be harassed with grueling pain. In his calm stance he seemed to simply not want to be an eagle anymore and, “BAM”! With a flash of light he was human again, but with no marks or signs of
Jaenna set the bird on a stone and eased the arrow from it's breast. Poor lil creature, she thought. All tha places it migh've flown had it's life not just been snuffed...
The bald eagles are larger and stronger than the hawk and owl. They also have a propensity for aggression. I now wanted to feed the hawk and owl. The woman sensed my hesitancy and assured me that everything would be fine: all I had to do was place a fish on each log in the cage. Her words of encouragement didn't help, but I hate backing out. I entered the cage.