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Birders Poems - Poems about Birders

Wakodahatchee Wetlands

...The trees were filled with herons
On a branch or in a nest.
To see the babies being fed
And squawking was the best.

Some other birds were sitting
On a batch of eggs, bright blue,
While alliga...

Categories: birders, bird,
Form: Rhyme

Free Bird

...As soon as vandals sliced his cage,
The owl took his leave,
Escaping into Central Park,
Quite easy to achieve.

His name is Flaco and he is
Magnificent to see,
As birders post their sightings ...

Categories: birders, bird,
Form: Rhyme

Remnant On a Beach Gone By

...soul submerged in sand
tilted wing in memory
seagull waves good-bye



footnote:
What's the difference between a gull and a seagull?

People who say “seagull,” we assure each other, are wron...

Categories: birders, beach, bird, confusion, death,
Form: Haiku

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Central Park Gems

...For a few weeks they descend upon central park greens
to refresh and feed after a long northbound journey
flying through thousands of gray and blue miles
arriving in feathered shawls in every colo...

Categories: birders, bird, people, violence,
Form: Free verse

Population Plummet

...the birders of the world are crying ~ no fowl






***...

Categories: birders, bird, sad, sports, word
Form: Monoku

Christmas Mourning

...CHRISTMAS MOURNING

O mourning beast of Christmas steals three days.
The wife bakes joy with kids beside her skirt.
A man, mails cards just down the street, agaze.
The oven shield...

Categories: birders, christmas, death,
Form: Sonnet

Birdsong

...My colleagues who were birders 
Could identify the sound
And name the breed of every bird
Whose chirping was around.

It didn't matter if they saw
One feather on its back,
The tweets and twitt...

Categories: birders, bird,
Form: Rhyme

Birder's Lament

...With the river finally free
the birders in their migration
collect along the shore
lost loves and memories
as not a duck is to be seen

not knowing better it would seem
that spring is missing ...

Categories: birders, bird, loss, sad, spring,
Form: Free verse

Haiku - Wonders of Nature and 2 Senryu

...
HAIKU & TWO SENRYU
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


white sky... low the clouds
winter... stuck in a drift again
spring... where are you...
~~~
the bobbin dipper flies
below our secret rivers
...

Categories: birders, nature,
Form: Haiku

The Clandestine Life of the Burrowing Owl

...Burrowing Owls are found in open, dry grasslands, agricultural and range lands, and desert habitats often associated with burrowing animals, particularly prairie dogs, ground squirrels and badgers.
...

Categories: birders, bird, earth, humor, nature,
Form: Free verse

Dusk At the Great Swamp In Early Spring

...Dusk at the Great Swamp* in early Spring

Applauding 
at the curve of twilight
you’ll hear them: 
tree frogs.

Bending, feigning
one way then the other,
Greek dancers:
trees.

Concentrati...

Categories: birders, nature,
Form: Free verse

Sighting

...Friends go on safaris
To observe life in the wild.
Here in New York City,
All the wildlife’s fairly mild.

But yesterday I had a thrill
To vanquish any scowl
For, hidden in a leafy tree,
There sat a ...

Categories: birders, animal, urban,
Form: Rhyme

Seven Birders

...Seven birders in a huff
Trying to tell if it's brown or buff
The bird's feathers are all afluff
Seven birders in a hufff

Six birders in a van
Scouring, searching all the land
For a bird so small and...

Categories: birders, animals, nature, bird, bird,
Form: Rhyme