en-us http://www.animalsongsforkids.com/ http://www.animalsongsforkids.com/Animal-Video-Kids-Music-Animals-Blue-Whale/blogpost69457 Dear Friends. Check out this video of a kayaker's amazing encounter with a blue whale, the largest animal on Earth. It gives you a close-up look at just how big and magnificent these creatures are. I felt excited and tingly inside when I watched this. You can learn just how big a blue whale by listening to my song So Big! Blue Whale! on our CD IF I WERE A FISH and other Ocean Songs for Kids by Birdsong and the Eco-Wonders®. I wrote this song as a tribute to the world's largest animal. See if you can if you can find facts about a blue whale's lungs, heart and tongue in the song! (The lyrics to the song are below.) Birdsong and the Eco-Wonders 2011-12-2 http://www.animalsongsforkids.com/Kids-Music-AnimalsKids-Video-About-Wolves-Song-About-Wolves/blogpost64668 Dear Friends, Meet some of the 29 Mexican and Alaskan Gray wolves at the California Wolf Center in Julian, CA. You can see the entire album of these eight Mexican and Alaskan Gray Wolves on California Wolf Center's Facebook page. The names of these wolves include: Inuk, Chaco, Kiana, Taku and Ketchikan. Wolves such as these inspired my song and music video, LEADERS OF THE PACK. This video has a slideshow of beautiful wolf photos, courtesy of All -About -Wolves. You can also find the lyrics to this animal song for kids below. Please read and sing along with me! Soon we will be recording this song for our next CD. Stay tuned! Birdsong and the Eco-Wonders 2011-8-16 http://www.animalsongsforkids.com/Kids-Music-Animals-Wolves-Kids-Videos-Wolf-Photos/blogpost63994 Dear Friends, Check out this silly wolf photo from the California Wolf Center in Julian, CA. You can see the entire album of these silly wolf photos on California Wolf Center's Facebook page. Wolves such as these inspired my song and music video, LEADERS OF THE PACK. This video has a slideshow of beautiful wolf photos, courtesy of All -About -Wolves. You can watch my kids music video LEADERS OF THE PACK on my December, 2009 blog post. You can also find the lyrics to this animal song for kids below. Please read and sing along with me! We will be in the music studio this autumn to record this song for our next CD. Stay tuned! Birdsong and the Eco-Wonders 2011-7-29 http://www.animalsongsforkids.com/Kids-Music-Animals-Wolves-Kids-Videos-Song-Lyrics/blogpost63959 Check out this video of wolf pups from the California Wolf Center in Julian, CA, uploaded in June, 2011. These pups were born this past Spring. Wolf families such as these inspired my song and music video, LEADERS OF THE PACK. This video has a slideshow of beautiful wolf photos, courtesy of All -About -Wolves. You can watch my kids music video LEADERS OF THE PACK on my December, 2009 blog post. You can find the lyrics to this animal song for kids below. Please read and sing along with me! We will be in the music studio this year to record this song for our upcoming CD. Stay tuned! Birdsong and the Eco-Wonders 2011-7-27 http://www.animalsongsforkids.com/Animal-Song-Videos-Kids-Music-Animals-Dolphins/blogpost63219 Dear Friends. This is a fun National Geographic kids' video about dolphins. Here you will see a pod of dolphins using their sounds to locate large schools of anchovies. After locating the fish, they then use dolphin teamwork to catch the anchovies for dinner. Echolation and cooperation are the names of the game in this educational kids video. You can watch more natiuonal geographic videos at National Geographic Kids Online. You can also watch my animal song video about dolphins and echolocation, called Clickety Clack, in a previous blog post. In the video you will find the dolphin photos by NOAA and the lyrics of the song so that you can sing along. Clickety-Clack is the first song on my CD IF I WERE A FISH and other Ocean Songs for Kids by Birdsong and the Eco-Wonders. I love seeing dolphins off the coast of California where I live. I hope you enjoy these dolphin videos. -Birdsong Birdsong and the Eco-Wonders 2011-7-9 http://www.animalsongsforkids.com/Kids-Music--VideosWildflowersPollination-Kids-Songs/blogpost63132 Dear Friends, In this video, you can listen to the chorus of my new song, The Flowers have Gone Wild!. Did you know that: Most plants require the assistance of pollinators to produce seeds and fruit? Pollinators include birds, beetles, bees, butterflies, wasps and flies, ants, bats and moths? Pollinators visit flowers in search of food, mates, shelter and nest-building materials? The sugar in a flower's nectar and the protiens, fats, vitamins and minerals from its pollen provide food and energy for pollinators? This energy helps pollinators grow and provides power for their metamorphosis, flight and reproduction? Most wildflowers are fertilized when pollinators visit the flower and then carry pollen from flower to flower? A flower need to be fertilized in order to be produce seeds and fruit? Without pollinators and fertilized flowers the world of nature (including people) would go hungry? Therefore, the relationship between flowers and pollinators feeds the world? These are some of the interesting facts I learned as I was writing my kids song about wildflowers, called The Flowers have Gone Wild! You can learn more about wildflowers and their pollinators on a great website by the US Forest Service called Celebrating Wildflowers. You can also hear the chorus to my new kids song in the video below. The video also has photos of wildflowers taken this past Spring in Laguna Beach, CA and Anza Borrego State Park, CA. You can find the lyrics to The Flowers have Gone Wild! in my last blog entry. Birdsong and the Eco-Wonders 2011-6-30 http://www.animalsongsforkids.com/Kids-Music-PlantsInsects-Wildflowers-Photos-Pollination-Kids-Songs/blogpost62765 Dear Friends, In this video, you can listen to the chorus of my new song, The Flowers have Gone Wild!. I have also changed some of the words in the verses since my last blog entry. The new words to the lyrics are at the very end of this letter. Here are some of the words I am using in my new song about wildflowers: wildflowers, bugs, pollinate, pollination, fertilized, pollen, germination, seeds, fruit, colors, blooming, flowers, Spring, bees, beetles, birds and sun. They are all connected to wildflowers in some way. See if you can find these words in the lyrics of the song below. Perhaps you know some other words that are part of the world of wildflowers. Birdsong and the Eco-Wonders 2011-6-16 http://www.animalsongsforkids.com/Kids-Music-PlantsInsects-Wildflowers-Photos-Pollination-Kids-Songs/blogpost62273 Dear Friends, Here's some of the words I am using in my new song about wildflowers:wildflowers, insects, bugs, pollinate, pollination, fertilization, pollen, nectar, petals, leaves, seeds, fruit, colors, blooming, Spring, bees, beetles, birds and butterflies. They are all connected to wildflowers in some important way. See is you can find these words in the lyrics of the song below. I felt so much joy and excitement when I saw wildflowers blooming this Spring that I started writing a new song called The Flowers have Gone Wild! Since my last blog entry, I've added more verses to the chorus which you can see below. As I write this song, I am learning about the kinds of insects that pollinate wildflowers. They include bees... Birdsong and the Eco-Wonders 2011-5-24 http://www.animalsongsforkids.com/Kids-Music-PlantsInsects-Wildflowers-Photos-Pollination-Kids-Songs/blogpost61642 Dear Friends, It's impossible to learn about wildflowers without learning about the insects and other creatures that pollinate them. It's a give-take relationship for sure! The nectar and pollen of wildflowers provide food and energy for bugs; and the bugs pollinate the wildflowers while they are drinking and eating the nectar and pollen. The pollinated flowers then produce fruit and seeds that make more wildflower plants to feed the pollinating insects and other animals. It's an amazing circle called the web of life! Wildflowers help insects and insects help wildflowers. It's a win-win relationship for everyone involved. Yes, indeed, wildflowers and insects are connected! I felt so much joy and excitement when I saw wildflowers blooming this Spring that I started writing a new song. I'm calling this song, The Flowers have Gone Wild! Since my last blog entry, I've added a verse to the chorus which you can see below. As I write this song, I am learning about the kinds of insects that pollinate wildflowers. They include bees, beetles, butterflies, wasps, ants and moths. What wildflowers and pollinating insects have you observed in your own backyards, parks and neighborhoods? CLICK HERE to tell me about them or to send photos. Below you can see photos of some of the wildflowers in my neighborhood in Laguna Beach, California. Birdsong and the Eco-Wonders 2011-4-29 http://www.animalsongsforkids.com/Kids-Music-PlantsInsects-Wildflowers-Photos-Pollination-Kids-Songs/blogpost60808 Dear Friends, It's Spring and the wildflowers are blooming! I am grateful for last Winter's rain and snow because it gave the plants enough water and energy to now make it possible for them to bloom with such beautiful flowers. I've been taking lots of walks and discovering the different colors, shapes and sizes of wildflowers in my neighborhood and local park. I especially enjoy watching insects landing on a flower to drink that flower's nectar, while at the same time pollinating it. It's exciting to hear the bumblebees buzzing and see the moths and butterflies fluttering near the flowers whose colors have caught their attention. I felt so much joy and excitement when I saw those wildflowers blooming this Spring that I started singing a brand new song. I'm calling this song, The Flowers have Gone Wild! You can see the chorus to the song below. In order to write the rest of the song, I want to find out more about wildflowers and what makes them bloom, as well as what kind of incests are drawn to them. What wild flowers and pollinating insects have you observed in your own backyards, parks and neighborhoods? CLICK HERE to tell me about them or to send photos. Below you can see photos of some of the wildflowers in my neighborhood in Laguna Beach, California. Birdsong and the Eco-Wonders 2011-4-7