I and the Bird #127: Higgledy-piggledy

Higgledy, piggledy
Welcome, friends, welcome to
I and the Bird number
Hundred two seven

Thursdays, bi-weekly, it
Ornithologically
Drops blog posts on you like
Manna from heaven

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Hankety, pankety
Duncan down under hosts
Fabulous birds near
Cruachan’s high peak

He says it’s Autumn, I
Have to believe, on things
South-hemispherical
I cannot speak

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Boggety, spoggety
Dwelling too much on the
World’s many problems can
Drive you quite mad

Hill-stead Farm gets it and
Home-ecologically
Helps out their birds so they
Don’t feel so bad.

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Blerghety, shmerghety
Birder’s Lounge Amber knows
Parks where the gaudiest
Species are found

Camera’s focused when
Ultra-frustratingly
Buntings in question decide
To turn ’round

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Haggety, baggety
Evening Grosbeaks are
Well-known for hosting a
Massive billed head

Idaho birders are
Anti-eponymous
Then when they focus on
Eyebrows instead

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Bibbity babbity
We’ve all been told that a
Bird in the hand is worth
Two in the shrub

How to interpret, then,
Ornitho-quizzical
Oriole looks that say
“Lemme go, bub!”

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Flappity wappity
Springtime bird boxes were
Largely immune to the
Housing meltdown

That’s why it’s preferable
Mortgage-financially
Renting to Bluebirds whose
Credit’s reknowned

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Flibbity jibbity
Bird’s nest are generally
Hard to find, hidden with
Utmost of care

Think, then, how easy if
Characteristically
All birds made nests look like
Marge Simpson’s hair

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Mabbely dabbely
I and the Bird has got
Standards for content that
Must be obeyed

I’m not so strict so a
Seriocomical
Birdy cartoon makes me
Say, “what the hey?”

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Oily doily
Mexico’s Gulf is a
Festering mess with no
Easy way out

Worse that survival of
Pe-ter-o-chemically
Compromised birds is still
So much in doubt

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Picidy schmicidy
Woodpecker pairs remind
Me of no one in
particular, though,

One of those peckerheads
Can hearken back to the
Pantomime-tastical
Marcel Marceau

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Wattery flattery
Theodore Roosevelt
Built a canal across
Old Panama

Now that it’s run by the
Centroamerican
Residents there you can
Bird till you drop

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Boogerty shoogerty
Ireland’s birders have
Nearly perfected the
Seawatching game

What do they get for their
Pelago-mindedness?
Photos of Fulmars put
Many to shame!

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Cassidy plassidy
Cuckoos and Parrots for
Those international
Birders parade

But it’s the Hornbill who
Looks like a crow in who’s
Coraciiformity
Field trips are made

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Bikity spikity
Bob of Nishiki gets
Out in the grassland
With lifers on tap

Wonderful, then, when the
Pasturo-specific
Species do frequently
Fall in your lap

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Pipidy jipity
Plovers need beaches that
Stay mostly free of those
bad ORVs

Thankfully Wardens are
On the spot keeping them
Oceanfrontarily
Nesting with ease

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Kiskadee fiskadee
Birders who call themselves
Unabashed flycatcher
Lovers are rare

Birders, get rid of your
Tyrannophobia!
Love for Empidonax
Brethren declare!

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Konkeree donkeree
Colors on blackbirds are
Too often simple and
Not closely seen

How can you call it a
“Black” bird when faced with an
Ultaflourescently
Glossy slick sheen?

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Hosaly dosaly
Some lucky birder gets
Trips to the tropics on
Wildbird’s dime

Photos and birds look so
Superfantastico
This birder wants to know
Where is the line?

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Fishidy lishidy
Fishing in June in the
Arctic looks different from
June around here

Must have to do with the
Hi-latitudinal
Bait that they’re using to
Bring the fish near

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Mullety gullety
Sandpiper babies are
Possibly the cutest
Things on two feet

Stilts get it double when
Literal-mindedly
Rivals are standing
Beneath in defeat

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Rajady bajady
Stately the Peacock does
Take in the sights of his
Indian lair

What’s that you say? This one’s
Living in Canada?
Holybejesusman!
How’d it get there?

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Tallyby fallyby
Sitting and counting the
Birds from one spot can be
Quite leisurely

Though I’m still wondering
Scatologistically
What do you do when you
All have to pee?

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Checkity beckity
Counting all birds in the
Field isn’t solely for
those CBCs

Using a program like
eBird makes sure that the
Avia-scientists
Get what they need

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Warblery darblery
Searching for Parids just
North of the city can
Show mixed returns

Though, nothwithstanding, the
Arachnophobia
Left from the run-in with
Ticks really burns
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Germany dermany
Blog posts devoured by
Internet goblins makes
One want to weep

Fortunate functioning
Photographelements
Save the tableau from the
World wide junk heap

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Beagley deagley
Darwin’s smart finches are
Famously known to be
Diverse and tame

Strange, then, that it’s a bit
Counterintuitive
Seeing in photos they
All look the same!

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Higgledy piggledy
That’s all she wrote for this
Fourth time edition of
I and the Bird

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