WATERFOWL, seventh flocking

 

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

previous poetic posts (Note that captions are available for poems displayed on "Daily Illustrated Nonsense" after January, 2024).

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

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

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

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

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

(flocking#6): seabird feeders, snow goose, snowy egret, tricolored heron, trumpeter swan.

CURRENT CONTENTS (flocking#7):
Willets
Wood ducks
Wood storks
Yellow-crowned night herons
A loon's life (3 verses, a 'brief saga')
Cormorant rookery (3 verses, a 'brief saga')

   

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