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High Noon Yarrup
'Twere at a Northern Flicker's beckon peck
That from a slumber I arose
Wondering if some discotheque
Had messed with my mid day repose.
But as soon as I had given a glance
From out my chamber window frame
I broke the creature's tapping trance
To see it quit where it lay claim
And once again regain the sky
With wing beats in a panic flap
Since no bird cares to see me spy
Where it thought that it was drilling for sap
Inside some strange rectilinear tree
Full of flicker chow...instead of me!
That from a slumber I arose
Wondering if some discotheque
Had messed with my mid day repose.
But as soon as I had given a glance
From out my chamber window frame
I broke the creature's tapping trance
To see it quit where it lay claim
And once again regain the sky
With wing beats in a panic flap
Since no bird cares to see me spy
Where it thought that it was drilling for sap
Inside some strange rectilinear tree
Full of flicker chow...instead of me!
Published 10th Nov 2022
| Edited 11th Nov 2022
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10th Nov 2022 7:56am
Now I've not done any research
on this bird but it might relate
to a woodpecker. Me & my boy
go camping and one of our great
delights is seeing (or hearing)
the wildlife that we don't see
or hear at home. It's time
constrains at home. But we
we once sat for half an hour
on damp grass waiting for
a mole to poke its nose out
of the ground. Not knowing
it was a mole till its nose broke
through the earth and part
of the background noise was
the tap tap tap of a woodpecker.
Thanks.
on this bird but it might relate
to a woodpecker. Me & my boy
go camping and one of our great
delights is seeing (or hearing)
the wildlife that we don't see
or hear at home. It's time
constrains at home. But we
we once sat for half an hour
on damp grass waiting for
a mole to poke its nose out
of the ground. Not knowing
it was a mole till its nose broke
through the earth and part
of the background noise was
the tap tap tap of a woodpecker.
Thanks.
11th Nov 2022 8:28pm
That you have enough appreciation for nature to not only observe but to write about it is a credit to your priorities. We can all learn from your approach.
11th Nov 2022 10:21pm
Many thanks!
We are lucky to live in a pretty typical subdivision so we get a few visits from squirrels, raccoons, opossums, and various birds from time to time, which I think also has a lot to do with us not having a pet right now to chase them off. The squirrels are the most entertaining by far and well worth the price of the wire cobb feeder we invested in. The boldest of them regularly takes a peanut right from the hand when offered, and will come into the house searching for them if we don't shoo it away :)
We are lucky to live in a pretty typical subdivision so we get a few visits from squirrels, raccoons, opossums, and various birds from time to time, which I think also has a lot to do with us not having a pet right now to chase them off. The squirrels are the most entertaining by far and well worth the price of the wire cobb feeder we invested in. The boldest of them regularly takes a peanut right from the hand when offered, and will come into the house searching for them if we don't shoo it away :)
