HAIKU POETRY

Bluebirds Rejoicing

Joy and happiness

Bluebirds chirp with grace

perched upon the iron feeder

rejoicing with seeds

Trivia

Bluebirds are not really blue. “Red and yellow feathers get their color from actual pigments, called carotenoids, that are in the foods birds eat, blue is different — no bird species can make blue from pigments. The color blue that we see on a bird is created by the way light waves interact with the feathers and their arrangement of protein molecules, called keratin. In other words, blue is a structural color. Different keratin structures reflect light in subtly different shades of what our eyes see as blue.”

— Scott Sillett, a wildlife biologist at the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center. —