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Volume 34 • October 21, 2022
Welcome to
🦜 The Flyer 🦜
by Flying Colors
Every other Friday, we share original content written by the Flying Colors team, fascinating stories & tidbits from the world of birding, curated products, epic bird photos, and more.
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Bird of the Week: The Great Blue Heron
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Found in North and Central America
 Hear Their Calls
The majestic Great Blue Heron can often be seen carefully stepping along riverbanks, and soaring silently over waterways. They may be the largest Heron in North America, but they only weigh five or six pounds, which helps them stealthily stalk their prey before they strike like lightning at fish under the water’s surface. They also have excellent night vision, making them 24/7 hunters of not only fish, but frogs, turtles, snakes, and more.
Males pick a nesting site often far above the ground, building a large nest with sticks, then courting females by flying in circles with their necks extended, crown feathers standing up, snapping their bills open and shut. They’re solitary animals except for when they gather in colonies to mate and incubate and raise their chicks for 60-90 days.
Fun fact: Great Blue Herons have special chest feathers that catch things like fish slime and oil that they can clean off with a brush of the claw on their middle toes. |
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Give a Hoot
Birding bits you should know about this week
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Backyard Birds Love Our Organic Bird Food |
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Flying Colors’ stylish organic wild bird food is made with 100% USDA certified organic ingredients that birds love. Our three custom blends — Pine Plains, Woodstock, and Millbrook — are made with healthy, pesticide-free nuts and seeds like hemp, safflower, and sunflower and peanut hearts. And our products are hand-mixed with love in New York's Hudson Valley.
We love birds as much as you do, and it shows in our stylish and bird-friendly products. |
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Your Shot
An amazing bird photo taken by one of our community members. Submit yours to hello@flyingcolors.co to be considered for an upcoming edition!
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Toward evening
the heron lifts his long wings
leisurely and rows forward
into flight. He
has made his decision: the south
is swirling with clouds, but somewhere,
fibrous with leaves and swamplands,
is a cave he can hide in
and live.
– “A Poem for the Blue Heron” by Mary Oliver
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About Us
Flying Colors makes premium organic wild bird food, offering ethically sourced, toxin-free seeds and nuts of the highest quality to nourish wild birds of all types and inspire birders of all ages. Each specialty blend and single origin creation is rigorously sourced & researched, and every jar is produced with love & packaged by hand in small batches in New York's Hudson Valley and tested in our own backyards.
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