Surely, all poems/verses/doggerel should try to be educational/useful in some way. Even being silly is "useful" if it cheers people up for a little while. This one, I hope, does a little bit of all of that...... Troglodytes troglodytes never climbs to the tops of trees it doesn't like to be up high like Polysticta stelleri whilst Ardea cinerea likes to catch a fish for dinner. However, Merops superciliosus, eats bees without the slightest fuss. (Your Charadrius hiaticula likes an over-ripe cucumber.) Streptopelia decaocto flew in from Europe years ago and Hippolais polyglotta makes its nest from terra-cotta. Oriolus oriolus makes hers in an omnibus. (Anas discors, rather neatly uses an old Woman's Weekly.) The wily Larus philadelphia lives a life that's so much healthier eating lots of Otis tarda which she keeps in a fancy larder also stocked with Cinclus cinclus (and Grus's "antigone" and "grus" which some think is ridiculous.) Crex crex is rather keen on seaweed unlike Carduelis chloris it prefers a bowl of linseed and, perhaps, a boiled Doris (which is a sea-slug, rather colourful and like Upupa epops, wonderful.) Your average Zonotrichia is a lifelong nosy parker (like Tringa nebularia but darker.) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ And now, some appropriate music ....... 08:43 .... a Swift has flown high over the house it might be the last of the year . they weigh a bit more than a mouse but considerably less than a deer.
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