The White-Throated Needletail
The White-throated Needletail
The white-throated needletail
(World’s fastest bird)
Was recently spotted
And quick spread the word
Only eight other sightings
In one seventy years
On the Isle of Harris
The bird watcher hears
And so ornithologist
From near and from far
Gathered in June
To observe this bird star
They were not disappointed
As the bird soon flashed by
Straight as an arrow
Straight cross the sky
Straight into the blades
Of a wind turbine machine
Straight into nirvana
If you know what I mean
Joined the invisible choir
Left this mortal coil
Scattered its feathers
Upon Scotland’s soil
This rare little bird
That flew like the wind
May have just disappeared
To be seen not again
Uncle Mike
Copyright © Mike Dailey | Year Posted 2013
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