Bluebirds display quick and distinctive flight patterns when they take to the sky. The patterns are easily recognizable from almost any distance. If their flight were translated into music, it would mirror the immediacy and intensity of "Flight of the Bumblebee." At the same time, bluebirds exhibit remarkable gracefulness in their movements—lifting, veering, swooping their elegant cursive-like signatures through the air.
Bluebirds also have the remarkable ability to hover in mid-air when they spy something of interest amidst the prairie grass below them. I cannot ignore the sight of a hovering bluebird. If I see one doing so, I am compelled to stop whatever thing I am doing so I can witness. To fly is one thing; to hover is another.
—Mitchell Hegman
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