Showing posts with label Birds. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Birds. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Limericists Of The World Unite!

Sean Lysaght at stonechat has thrown down the gauntlet. Finish this limerick, inspired by the name of an Elizabethan official who served in Ireland:

An official called Lodowick Bryskett--

Have at it!...

My love, she speaks like silence...

Birds we have seen at Carrowholly:

Green finch

Oyster catcher
Chough
Magpie
Irish robin
Sparrow
Thrush
European wren
Gray heron
European gull

Green finches and sparrows by the dozen eat daily at our feeder. Oddly, the finches peacefully coexist with the sparrows but fight among themselves. Only one at a time actually perches in the feeder, fending off the challengers who otherwise glean seed from the patio...