يا ما حلا المقناص وقت البرادي
في خايعن توه من الوسم ممطور
وجول الحباري منتشر بالحمادي
والحر الأشقر صادهن طلعة النور


هاذي حلاة الطير وقت المقانيص
حراً تنومس من قنصبه فعوله
عن مخلبه ما للحباري مخاليص
خرب نثر ريشه وخرب يغوله


بعض الصقور إليا أنطلق صابه الخوف
يروح ويرجع ما تحصل نتيجه
والحر منها كنه البرق معروف
يبرد غليلك لا بدا في وهيجه


الحباري منوة أحرار الصقور
ولا يحول البعد دون أهدافها
لا كفكف الجنحان ما يختل شور
يلطم ويعرض ما كأنه شافها



يا طير ياللي تنتف الريش نتفا
ما ترحم اللي مامعه عنك حيله
خل الطيور تعيش يا طير تكفا
شينتها من عقب كانت جميله


الحر الأشقر أرتفع فوق الأنظار
وجاب الحباري وأرتوي من لحمها
يعجبك طيراً يسبق الريح لا طار
يحكم على الصيده ويكتم نسمها

يافرحة الصقار وياطيب فاله
لا شاف فعل الطير في صحيح البيد
لا من شهر لا من علا ثم جاله
قصاف عمر اللي شلع واللوابيد


مخالبك يا الحر عكف معاطيب
من شوفتك شغيت كبود مجاريح
قو العزوم الصايبة لازم تصيب
وراي الخطا يقفاهم وسواميح




الحر الأشقر بهدته طيح الخرب
خلا شتات الريش له بعثريره
من يوم شافه أخلقه نية الدرب
من السماء للأرض حول مصيره


الله على حداً إذا هد صادي
الله على النادر عطيب المضاريب
حراً ينومس في نهار الهدادي
لي هد جاب الصيد غصب بلاطيب


حام طير الهداد وشاف بالجو صيده
فرع قرناس وأهو بنحدار
بالمخالب يخم الريش نثرن عديدة
جابها للأرض وأنحرف باستدار


حتى الطيور الطايره بينها صراع
مثل البشر فيهم صقور وحمايم
كم من صراعاً صار بأسباب الأطماع
وحروب ما بين انتصار وهزايم



اللي نشوفه زيلة طيور والريش
مثل الحوايم بالسمابس من وين
يظهر على الأسر صواب وتخاميش
واللي على يمناه ما به تخامين


يا الربع مقناص ودي بمسراحه
أسرح بيومي وليلي أسري به
أشوف صقرن يلاطم طير بأجناحه
ريش الفريسه تبعثرها مخاليبه


ما ينفع الحذر وحراسه
الحر باغتك بهجومي
الخرب جاكم على راسه
وصار الجسد بالهوا يومي

DESERT TRIB









Winter is a special time in the deserts of California. The weather is cool, the sun shines brightly, and the air is crisp and clear. Each December, the boys and girls of Tom Sawyer Camps embark on an adventure that they talk about all year long.
On the day after Christmas, the campers depart for Death Valley National Monument. For five days we explore the vast desert with new and old friends. Our days are spent climbing sand dunes, squeezing through slot canyons, sliding down mud hills and just looking over it all at places with names like Dante's View, Stovepipe Wells, Golden Canyon, Badwater, Ubehebe Crater, Scotty's Castle and Marble Canyon. Our nights are full of stars, snipe hunts, s'mores and stories around a roaring campfire about overland travelers and prospectors. Death Valley is one of the premier desert areas in California, and for kids it is a place of discovery and memories that last a lifetime.
With their sleeping bags and camping gear, the Desert Trippers climb aboard the familiar buses and head out for primitive, unspoiled territory. Their counselors for this experience are veteran Tom Sawyer members who will guide their "charges" in the ways of camping and enjoying the out-of-doors. The Desert Trip is a good introduction to tent camping.
One of the main objectives of this trip, as with all TOM SAWYER CAMP activities, is to reintroduce children to less sophisticated, natural environments. In these days of environmental awareness, this trip is an excellent opportunity for campers to experience the beauty and wonder of nature. TOM SAWYER CAMPS has over 75 years of background in leaving the environment "a little bit better" because we have been there.

Where is the world's largest desert?

Thr world's largest desert is actually the continent of Antarctica; it is the world's driest place. It receives less than two inches of precipitation annually. Antarctica is 5.5 million square miles (14,245,000 square kilometers) in area.
Outside of polar regions, Northern Africa's Sahara Desert is the world's largest desert at more than 3.5 million square miles (9 million square kilometers), which is slightly smaller that the size of the United States, the world's fourth largest country. The Sahara strectches from Mauritania to Egypt and Sudan.

• What is a desert?
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  A desert is a place with 10 inches or 25cm of rain or less a year. Deserts cover about one seventh of the earth's surface.
  The landscape of deserts vary greatly; but all deserts have 1 thing in common . They are all extremely dry, and can be one of the harshest places on earth .
  Many deserts have extremes in temperature, with very high temperatures in the day and cold temperatures at night .
  Deserts are not only made of sand as many people think. They consist of rocks, mountains, and sand. Desert sands are often rock which has weathered down to sand over the centuries.
  There are 3 main ways in which a desert can be made. Deserts are formed because of lack of water.
  1) Arid or dry regions are caused by not being near a large body of water.
  2) Inland areas lack moisture from the air.
  3) Mountains may prevent rain from reaching areas making the areas dry and after awhile a desert.
  There are many deserts on the earth's surface. The largest desert is the Sahara desert found in north Africa. The largest continuous stretch of sand is called the Empty Quarter which is part of the Arabian Desert that stretches 250,000 sq. miles .
  Not all desert area have no rainfall , occasionally rainfall can turn some areas of desert into pockets of green areas . Today vast areas of desert are green as a result of pumping water from deep bore wells.
  Some plants and animals are able to exist in the desert. They are often able to survive by avoiding the driest times and only growing after the rains. A plant may spring up from a dormant seed after the rain and some adapt to the small amount of rainfall and are able to live, like the cacti, who can store water. A Spade foot tadpole often spends most of its time buried in the sand.
  Insects have also learned to adapt to desert live and survive the dry times as eggs or pupae. Some ants store seed to eat during the dry seasons. they also avoid the heat by often coming out only at night.
  Reptile on the other hand do well in the desert because they control their body temperature by gaining or losing heat from their surroundings . They use less energy and need less food.
  Small mammals like hamsters and mice can also live in the desert by living in burrows . The temperature in the burrows does not change like the surface. They can also store their food in the burrows. They might only come out at night when it is cool.
  Larger mammals such as the hedgehog and fox also stay in the burrows and only come out at night to search for food.
  Camels are one of the few animals which seem to be designed to survive in the desert . They can go for days without water and are able to eat the tough desert plants. They store in their humps which help them survive.
  Whether an animal or and insect or a human it seem a lot of adapting need to be done to survive and live in the desert.