Do you know why some birds migrate every year to the same place? It is set in their way of life. It's just like the bears that will sleep all winter and will know when to wake up in the spring. Another plant that does the same thing is our tree. They will bloom in the spring and lose all their leaves in the fall. The only thing different about the trees is that they don't move from one place to the other.

Our birds fly from one place on our planet to the other every spring and every fall. They will give birth to their offspring in the spring, and hopefully this offspring will come back to do the same thing themselves the next spring. Most of our small birds will do this also, but they might be replaced by another kind of bird so that we always have some kind of bird in all of our seasons.

The ones that I really know about migrating to here in the wintertime are the snow geese. In the spring we have geese, ducks, robins, blue jays, and a lot of others that I can't even think to name. Our rabbits go underground and only come out when they have to. Our squirrels put their food into holes in the trees for their winter stay. Even the mice try to get into our homes out of the winter cold winds.

When our birds leave this area they will go from one body of water in the south to another body of water in the north. They will do this every year, and we can tell by their appearance or disappearance when to know when our weather is going to change. It is the same all over the world. We use our animals' way of life to tell us when spring is coming. This day we celebrate is called Groundhog Day.

We sometimes wish we were these birds so that we could get out of the winter weather or so we could see different places and do different things. Remember that those birds are doing the same things that they do every year and are going to the same places. We wish that we could fly to even half of the places they go. The statement is straight as the birds fly. Well it would be faster but probably not as scenic as we would like it to be.