'BIRDLORE' : Nesting #3

   This post is a continuation of a collection of verses about 'LANDBIRDS', as posted on this blog on December 15, 2022 (nesting#1), and December 15, 2023 (nesting #2).

 previous poetic posts

(nesting #1): American goldfinches, birdfeeders, bird droppings, boat-tailed grackles, California scrub-jays, cattle egrets

(nesting #2) cedar waxwings, dawn chorus, de-snooding (domestic turkeys), eagles and eaglets, eastern towhees, house finches

CURRENT CONTENTS (#3):

Northern cardinals

Pigeon porn

Red-tailed hawks

Red-winged blackbirds

Robins

Toucans

(for continuation, see the link below)

Authors' Note: A male cardinal is seen in the video below, as it hops along a driveway. The songbird spends more time foraging on the ground, rather than in trees and shrubs. And although its diet, particularly items fed to nestlings, includes insects and other small animals, it is best known as a seed-eater, using its thick strong beak to break sunflower and safflower seeds. 

Authors' Note: The author recently obtained a photo-exposé of the activity as performed on a nearby sidewalk. He finds it appropriate to describe pigeon-mating in writing with the aid of binomial expressions (italicized in the above verse). You can find out a lot more (several collections of illustrated verse) about these grammatical gems by clicking HERE.

Note that Fred the robin has also appeared with his buddy Carl the cardinal in the blogpost "Curtained Verse", a collection of illustrated verses that you can find by clicking HERE.

Bird-watchers, academic ornithologists, wordplay enthusiasts, wildlife photographers, Giorgio's relatives, and just everyday folks have united in their demand for still more verses on the topic of landbirds!

So, please follow this link! for the collection 'birdlore, part #3'.