The Pyrrhuloxia

The lovely crested Pyrrhuloxia,

known as the desert cardinal

is usually seen alone or in pairs

so you’ll have to have a lot of luck to view alotsia.

The Unheard and Unseen Eared Grebe

Would you care to share how you felt when you didn’t hear or see a Eared Grebe?

I grieved.

The Veery

Would you like to view a Veery?

Veery much I’d be in a rush to see that thrush.

The Hooded Merganser

Fond of wooded swamps and ponds,

you can try to duck the answer.

What is a hooded merganser?

The Purple Gallinule

A real beauty and cutey

flamboyantly mutlticolored

walking on lily pads

egads!

viewing a Purple Gallinule

can bring out the gal in you.

The Duck (by Ogden Nash)

Behold the duck.
It does not cluck.
A cluck it lacks.
It quacks.
It is specially fond
Of a puddle or pond.
When it dines or sups,
It bottoms ups.

The Collared Plover

Over and over again I searched to see a Collared Plover.

Finally, once I saw one I got so excited,

but immediately he flew away.

I guess I shouldn’t have hollared, and hollared and hollared.

No Birding Today

Let me explain-

Rain, rain, rain…

Drives me insane, insane, insane…

it’s such a pain, pain, pain…

So all I do is complain, complain, complain…

The Woodpecker

Peck, peck, peck, peck, peck, peck, peck, peck, peck, peck, peck, peck, peck, peck, peck. peck…

You’d think they’d just end up with a pain in the neck

but

Lo and behold,

a little round hole.

What the heck,

now they have a home in a telephone pole.

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The Pelican (by Dixon Lanier Merritt)

A wonderful bird is the pelican,
His bill will hold more than his belican.
He can take in his beak
Food enough for a week,
But I’m damned if I see how the helican.