Every hollow tree homes its colony of bats. snakes sun on the bushes. the water folk leaves trails of shining ripples in their wake as they cross the lagoons. turtles waddle clumsily from the logs. frogs take graceful leaps from the pool to pool. everything native to that section of the country-underground, creeping, or a-wing--can be found in the limberlost; but above all the birds. dainty green warblers nest in its tree-tops, and red-eyed vireos choose a location below. it is the home of bell-birds, finches, and thrushes. there are flocks of blackbirds, grackles, and crows. jays and catbirds quarrel constantly, and marsh-wrens keep up never-ending chatter. orioles swing their pendent purses from the branches, and with the tanagers picnic on mulberries and insects. in the evening, night-hawks dart on the silent wing; whippoorwills set up a plaintive cry that they continue far into the night; and owls revel in the moonlight and rich hunting. at dawn, robins wake the echoes of each new day with the admonition, "cheer up! cheer up! " and a little later big black vultures go wheeling through cloudland or hang there, like frozen splashes, searching the limberlost and the surrounding country for food. the boom of the bittern resounds all day, and above it the rasping scream of the blue heron, as he strikes terror to the hearts of frogdom; while the occasional cries of a lost loon, strayed from its flock in northern migration, fill the swamp with sounds of wailing. what is the connotative effect of the word scream used in paragraph 3 a) it suggests the horror that the cry of the heron must evoke in the hearts of its prey: frogs. b) it suggests that the author does not like the heron or its cry and finds both of them to be quite irritating. c) it makes the reader laugh at the ridiculousness of the scene; there's something comic about a bird "screaming." d) it suggests that the heron is terrified of its own actions and does not like what is required of its existence in the swamp.