Birds Eye View

It was a bright and sunny morning as I opened my eyes. I was laying in my brown prickly nest as I listened to the chirping of my friend that lives in a house a few trees away. Her house was built by some children last year. I wish I had a house, but some of the houses didn't survive and the children didn't make as many as I was hoping. I was just about to fall back to sleep when I heard five school buses arrive. I scrambled to my feet and flew over to where my friend Misty was chirping away in her fancy new house and not paying attention to the buses.

"Misty! Misty! Look! School buses!" I exclaimed. "Misty, maybe those are the children from last year that might make more houses! I really want a house just like yours but all I have a musty old nest."

"Daisy, I don't think those are the same children. They are so small and they all have different clothes on. Last year they had yellow shirts on. This year they have black shirts on. But maybe they will make more nests." Misty replied.

"Well, I hope they do. Hey Misty, lets go down to the low branch to hear what they are saying." I said. Misty and I flew down to the lowest branch near the children. We were not going to get any closer because we didn't want the people to hear or see us.

"Children listen up!" Mrs. Sanford demanded as her hand rose up into the air. The children all put their hand up and began to quiet down. "Sit."

"On the grass? Where bugs craw? No!" A girl named Sally argued.

"Wolf." A boy named Jacob murmured.

"Sally, just sit. A little grass won't hurt you." Mrs. Sanford said. Sally then sat on the ground, not even putting her gluteus maximus on the ground. Sally just squatted.

"Okay children, you will be divided into different groups. All of you will get to do everything. This half will go to the Raptors, the middle will go to the science labs, and then the remaing of people will go paint picnic tables." Ms. Sanford said.

"Oh no! They are not making bird houses!" I cried.

"That's ok. Maybe something they make will be useful." Misty replied.

All the children went to their assigned place, with their assigned groups and assigned teacher. Misty and I went to get a closer look at the first station, the science lab. We flew in between the trees. The air was so nice. Not much wind and perfect temperature. There were about twelve people at one table. This station was observing macroinvertebrates.
"Hey, Eric, what are macroinvertebrates?" Jacob asked.

"Macroinvertebrates are little bugs that live in the water and they have no backbone." Eric answered.

"Bugs! Ew! No, I am not touching that!" Sally complained.

"Sally you won't touch anything. Will you." Jacob said.

" I think bugs are helpful to the environment." I joked. "For us!"

" Haha." Misty answered.

"Ok students, you will have about forty-five minutes to observe the macroinvertebrates." Ms. Sanford said.

The students grabbed a leaf out of the grey Home Depot bucket and placed it in the petree dish. They also added some water in the petree dish so the macroinvertibrates didn’t die.

"Did you know that Macroinvertibrates can survive in very little water and that the water doesn't have to be that clean?" Eric informed everybody.

"Well Eric, the water does have to be clean. Just their perspective of clean is different from ours. We say that clean water is drinkable water, well they say clean water is water without pollution or other junk in it." Ms. Sanford corrected Eric.

"Okay, I stand corrected." Eric said.

"Misty, Eric is so smart!" I said.

"But Jacob is so funny!" Misty replied.

"I think these Macroinvertibrates are helpful to us." Misty said.

"Yep! They are food." I answered. "Misty, I'm hungry."

"Me, too. Let’s go in the woods to finds some bugs." Misty suggested. But, before we went into the woods, a big horn blew. The horn was as loud as someone screaming in my ear. All the children started moving, and some went into the woods.

"Great, now how are we going to get some food?" Misty asked impatiently.

"Just go on this side of the woods, no one is there. Why should we be hiding? We are just birds, not some secret agent type thing." I said.

"We should be hiding because there are other birds right there. See look. They are over there on that person's arm and they could come and attack us at any moment." Misty replied.

"I have better eye sight than you, look, there are chains holding onto the bird." I said and I pointed one of my feathers at the chain. "We don't have to hide the whole day, but we better not get that close to any of the humans."

"Well, fine, but if I get hurt, I'm blaming you." Misty answered in a snotty way. The same group of kids, Jacob, Eric, and Sally went into the woods.

"Daisy, I change my mind. I think we should go into the woods because these children aren't that bad. I think that they are harmless." Misty said.

"I knew you would change your mind!" Daisy exclaimed as she flapped her wings.

"Race you to the woods!" Misty replied as she dashed off into the nice warm sunny air, flapping her wings as fast as a running cheetah, while I was scrambling behind her trying to keep up. We both arrived in the woods.

"Okay students, now we are going to be gathering bugs. Pick one bug and come back to this white, plastic, portable table. Then once you arrive back at this table, pick up this paper, and work on it." Ms. Sanford informed everyone. Everyone went and grabbed a bug and came back to the table. Everyone but Sally.

“Ew! Bugs are disgusting!” Sally squeaked.

“Oh my gosh, Sally! Just pick one up. You have a baggy.” Jacob said.

“No. You do it.” Sally argued.

“Fine, if it gets you to be quite.” Jacob answered as he picked up a lady bug. Then they headed back to the table. They worked on the paper and then the big horn blew. Sally, Jacob, and Eric went back to the painting station.

“Okay, children, sit.” Ms. Sanford repeated for her last time.

“But, Ms…” Sally said, not being able to finish.

“Sally… sit!” Ms. Sanford said. “This is your last station. Grab a paint cup, some paint, a paint brush, and go to the assign table with your small group.

Everyone went to their assigned table. Misty and I flew over towards the table where Jacob, Eric, and Sally were. They started to paint the table blue. After thirty minutes, they were done. They did an extremely good job. Then ten minutes later, everyone hopped on the bus and went back to school.

“That was a great day!” Eric said.

“Yep we were the only ones who didn’t get paint all over ourselves. We just got some of it in our hair.” Jacob answered.

“That was good! They didn’t make bird houses, but they helped the park.” I told Misty.

“Yep, “Misty answered as she closed her eyes, and starting to sleep.

“I can’t wait until they come back next year!” I exclaimed as I headed over to my nest to lay down as the day ended.