Eagle Days Art Contest Winners 10th Annual Bald Eagle Days Festival: Art and Poetry Competition
On Saturday February 6, 2010 Dickson Mounds Museum will host an award ceremony and display of student's art and poetry for the Bald Eagle Days Festival: Art and Poetry Competition. Students in grades 1 - 12 from Mason and Fulton County schools submitted 84 works of art and 34 poems paying tribute to the American Bald Eagle. Competition categories included 2-dimensional art, 3-dimensional art, and poetry. Students could enter the competition under three age divisions in each category; Group 1 (grades 1-4), Group II (grades 5-8), Group III (grades 9 - 12). First, second, and third place awards were given.
All entries are to be displayed at Dickson Mounds through Monday, March 1, 2010.
This annual event is sponsored by the Mason and Fulton County Arts Councils, Mason County Library District, The Nature Conservancy, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and Dickson Mounds Museum.
Group 1 Art Winners
Two Dimensional Art - Group 1 (Click on the images below to display a larger versions.)
First Place Tie 
Perching on a Cold Day, Nick Williams, Walker Art Studio,3rd Grade
Frist Place Tie
Lunchtime, Mackenzie Saylor, Walker Art Studio, 3rd Grade
Second Place Tie
Eagle in the Forest , Lauren Auxier, Illini Central Grade School, 4th Grade Second Place Tie
Watching You , Sam Bleem, Walker Art Studio, 4th Grade Third Place
Eagle Feeding Baby Birds , Morgan Sarff, Illini Central Grade School, 4th Grade
Three Dimensional Art - Group 1
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First Place Super Eagle, Sophia Short, Illini Central Grade School, 3rd Grade Second Place
Feeding Time, Ethan Dye, Walker Art Studio, 4th Grade
Third Place
Watching Over the Brood, Cooper Hutchinson, Walker Art Studio, 4th Grade
Group 1 Poetry Winners
First Place Elli Johnson, Illini Central Grade School, 4th Grade An Eagle in Nature
Enjoying life as a bird of prey.
Always with partner till death.
Gracefully soring through the sky.
Living alone in high treetops.
Endangered are they.
Second Place Lane Johnson, Illini Central Grade School, 4th Grade An Eagle
Eagle
Strong, large
Soaring, hunting, watching
The top of the food chain
Predator
Third Place Quia Quinlan, Havana New Central, 3rd Grade Basketball Eagle
Eagles take turns sitting on the nest.
All eagles eat meat.
Good eye sight
Large animal
Egg are in a clatch of 1-3
Honorable Mention Abby Homan, Havana New Central, 3rd Grade Eagle's Face
Everyone watches them
A boy likes them
Guns would not shoot them
Loveing them is happy
Eat fish
Honorable Mention David Mayberry, Havana New Central, 3rd Grade Eagle Question
Eagle Eagle up so Hi y how you fly so Hi y whith
the whend [with the wind] in your face
Dose that Heart [Does that Hurt]
So I wonder How you fly In the sky
You dive in water
Honorable Mention Kassidy Miller, Havana New Central, 3rd Grade The Awesome Eagle
Eagles are awesome and quick.
Even their talons are so very thick.
Their eye sight is 10 times better than ours.
They can even fly so high taht they can stand on tower.
Group 2 Art Winners Two Dimensional Art - Group 2
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First Place The Break of Dawn, Isaac Perrilles, Spoon River Valley, 6th Grade Second Place Untitled, Garion Leamon, Illini Central Middle School, 5th Grade Third Place Eagle in the Sky, Sidney Liles, Illini Central Middle School,n 5th Grade
Three Dimensional Art - Group 2
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First Place Magnificent Bird of Prey, Krystina Short, Illini Central Middle School, 8th Grade
Group 2 Poetry Winners
First Place Rachel Homan, Havana Junior High School, 4th Grade
To See Through An Eagles Eye
I saw an eagle on day, yellow eyes bright. I wondered what is would be like, to see through an eagle's eye.
Would everything be in color, brown, black, or white?
Would everthing be different shapes, circle, or square?
Would all words be clear, smudged, or just plain weird?
I wonder what it would be like, to soar hight above the clouds. Would i be able to touch the sky, clouds, and stars? Would everyone hear my loud cry "CAW"?
An eagle has many questions laid on its wings. I wonder how many questions does and eagle have lain on its wings?
Group 3 Art Winners Two Dimensional Art - Group 3
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First Place Escaping Boundaries, Kevin Doutbet, Spoon River Valley, 10th Grade Second Place Pride, Emily Ellsworth, Spoon River Valley, 10th Grade Third Place Watching,, Abbigale Duffield, Spoon River Valley, 10th Grade
Group 3 Poetry Winners
First Place Lydia Perrilles, Spoon River Valley School, 9th Grade
Life in a Wingbeat
Flying high above the land
I pause, silhouetted by a sun lit band
With intense eyes that shine from my soul within,
I fly on, carried by a melodious wind.
My proud beak, and razored claws,
Weapons to follow Nature's Laws.
Winging o'er the land as I've done before
I know in my heart what I was made for.
Over the streams where I take my meals,
I breathe it, I know how liberty feels.
For I am beauty, beauty is me,
With strong, dark wings, eyes of fury,
I am contented to stay in my trees,
But also to venture, riding the breeze!
I am the youth of something so old,
I fell the wisdom, beyond my years.
No longer hidden, by dangerous fears.
But I am fresh like the fledgling, new in flight!
In my home, in the air, I'm quiet might,
Sometimes I am befuddled, like a fluff of a chick,
But learning in mistakes, I toss my head with a flick,
On soft wings, I am not heard,
But I stand out, a predator bird.
In the river I dive, and thrive,
I am Fierce In my Calling, In Freedom, Alive!
A scream so rich in shouting,
I could not live without
Not for the plumpest field mouse, Or the silvery trout.
'Tis nature knowing who I am,
I am the eagle, Part of the Land.
And as I wing forever in a sky of Gold and Blue,
I am Glad for my nature, I have nothing to rue.
And going on and going by,
I wing forever, off I fly.
