Wednesday, 10 June 2026

WATERFOWL, seventh flock

 

    This post is a continuation of a collection of verses about WATERFOWL', as posted on this blog on June 10, 2020 (sextet#1), June 10, 2021 (sextet#2), June 10, 2022 (sextet#3), June 10, 2023 (sextet#4), June 10, 2024 (sextet#5), and June 10, 2025 (sextet#6).


previous poetic posts

(sextet#1): American white ibis, anhinga, awkward great auk, birder, black-capped night heron, black skimmer. 

(sextet#2): brown pelican (Caribbean), brown pelican (revisited), Canada goose, double-crested cormorant, Egyptian goose, feral ducks. 

(sextet#3): flightless seabirds, gallinule (marsh hen), great blue heron, great egret, habitat, hooded merganser.

(sextet#4): juvenile night heron, laughing gull, litle blue heron, loon, mallard duck, muscovy duck. 

(sextet#5): mute swan, oystercatcher, the "pelicatessen", pescatarian, rosate spoonbill, ruddy turnstone.

(sextet#6): sea-bird feeders, snow goose, snowy egret, swan, tri-colored heron, trumpeter swan.


CURRENT CONTENTS:

Willets

Wood ducks

Wood storks
Yellow-crowned night herons
Cormorant rookery (3 stanzas: a 'brief saga')
A loon's life (3 stanzas: a 'brief saga')