Hello, Mister 🐧

This magpie has been coming to visit for a couple of years now and sometimes brings along a fledgeling. I understand they recognise individual human features. Here is what she said to me the other day. 

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Hello, mister. Yes, it's me, 

Here I am again. 

Switch off your computer screen, 

Put away your pen.

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When I come to visit you, 

Please don't think me rude, 

I'm not here for company,

I'm just here for food.

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I will peck at most things, 

If they taste all right, 

Little bits of fruit or cheese, 

Or meat, what a delight. 

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I will even eat the seed, 

You give your cocky, Poops, 

She won't mind you giving me, 

One or two big scoops.

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When it comes to food, you know, 

Birdies of a feather, 

Share a tit bit now and then, 

When we flock together.

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I remember features,

I remember faces, 

Like the little girl next door,

With her brand new braces.

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I think you're so handsome, mister, 

And I love your wife, 

But if you don't feed me soon, 

There will be some strife. 

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Come on mister, what's the prob? 

Bits of old banana?

Next door gave me bacon, 

On a colourful bandana.

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OK, stuff your nana, mate,

It's not what I eat,

I'll just check what's on the menu,

Further down the street.

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When not researching the weird or the wonderful, the comical or the cultured, the sinful or the serious, I chase my creative side, the results of which can be seen as selected photographs of my travels on my website at:

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The author of the above, Ken Boddie, besides being a sometime poet and occasional writer, is an enthusiastic photographer, rarely leisure-travelling without his Canon, and loves to interact with other like-minded people with diverse interests.

Ken's three day work week (part time commitment) as a consulting engineer allows him to follow his photography interests, and to plan trips to an ever increasing list of countries and places of scenic beauty and cultural diversity.