Catbird Crazy

So Robert Mortensen opened the door with his wonderful photo study of one of my fave feathered friends in his last blog post gray-catbird-photo-study.  Gray catbirds are special backyard friends of mine too! So clandestinely charismatic in their skulking chattering way, they have appeared reliably in the overgrown shrubs of our Upstate South Carolina home for almost 15 years now. I feel fortunate to have such a vocal neotropcial migrant as my noisy neighbor.  While mockingbirds have been called the "Southern Nightingale" and brown thrashers seem to be the southern choice for many folks as their favorite mimid (especially those in Georgia who claim them as their state bird and a defunct hockey mascot), I choose Dumetella carolinensis  as my copycat bird of choice!

Robert provided a wonderful photo study. I thought I'd try to match some words with the bird! So here's my latest passerine inspired poetry. Dedicated to Dumatella C.

Unplugged from couplets and unreasoned rhyme

Thrasher and mockingbird copying it seems take way too much time

Run-on notes flung into the breeze with no commas or dashes

Or semi-colons offered in between

The notes ever flowing rushing to see the verse done

 a mew is thrown in every now and again

And gives the poet pause to start anew 

Have Fun Birding Y'all!

Drew