We don’t go round hopin‘, we walks.
We don’t go in for this singing all day,
And twittering about, we just squawks.
We don’t go in for these fashionable clothes,
Like old Missel Thrush, and his spots,
Me breast isn’t red, there’s no crest on me head,
We’ve got sort of, hardwearing…dots.
We starlings, the misses, meself and the boys,
We’ll eat anything that’s about,
Well anything but that old half coconut,
I can’t hold it still. I falls out.
What we’d rather do, is wait here for you,
To put out some bread for the tits,
And then when we’re certain, you’re there by the curtain,
We flocks down and tears it to bits.
But we starlings, the misses, meself and the boys,
We reckon that we’re being got at,
You think for two minutes, them finches and linnets,
You never sees THEM being shot at.
So the next time you comes out to sprinkle the crumbs out,
And there’s starlings there, making a noise,
Don’t you be so quick to heave half a brick,
It’s the misses, meself and the boys!
Poem by Pam Ayres
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Geoff do you have a similar thing for Indian Miners. They have a much
nicer song.?
On Sun, 19 Feb 2023, 23:41 Jason Polak, <jpolak@jpolak.org> wrote:
I also liked the poem a lot. I read it aloud and it was very nice. I don’t
like that there are invasive species but we are the most invasive of all of
them by far, and the cause of most other invasions also.
Jason
On 2023-02-18 8:54 p.m., MADELON LANE wrote:
Love the poem, increasingly I see our poor planet on a trajectory tosomething rather like hell for it?s current inhabitants and am grateful for
the company of all species, who apart from humans, are unknowingly on this
journey into the future together.
On Sun, 19 Feb 2023 at 6:46 am, Geoff Ryan <geoffryanster@gmail.com<mailto:geoffryanster@gmail.com>> wrote:
My contribution to the Starling discussion:
*THE COMMON STARLING*
The common starling’s not the darling
Of humans in this land
But why decried and vilified
I do not understand.
Is it their success and life prowess
Producing swirling flocks
Most common bird seen or heard
‘Round Eastern farming blocks.
A pleasant call, not harsh at all
Iridescent breeding plume
Their beauty’s there for all to share
Not admired, I presume.
They fill a niche increasing rich
Spawned by crops and farms
But also feast on bugs and beast
Protecting crops from harm.
Do they enjoy or just destroy
A farmers right to earn
Reducing grain and thus the gain
To a point of no return?
Perhaps the hatred’s more predated
Bequeathed by English vile
Colonial error a foreign terror
Enough to churn our bile.
We in the East must try at least
To accept their subtle charm
Whereas the West must do its best
To keep starlings off the farm.
/Geoff Ryan/
2016
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On Mon, 20 Feb 2023, 08:45 Tony Russell, <pratincole08@gmail.com> wrote:
Geoff do you have a similar thing for Indian Miners. They have a much
nicer song.?
On Sun, 19 Feb 2023, 23:41 Jason Polak, <jpolak@jpolak.org> wrote:
I also liked the poem a lot. I read it aloud and it was very nice. I
don’t like that there are invasive species but we are the most invasive of
all of them by far, and the cause of most other invasions also.
Jason
On 2023-02-18 8:54 p.m., MADELON LANE wrote:
Love the poem, increasingly I see our poor planet on a trajectory tosomething rather like hell for it?s current inhabitants and am grateful for
the company of all species, who apart from humans, are unknowingly on this
journey into the future together.
On Sun, 19 Feb 2023 at 6:46 am, Geoff Ryan <geoffryanster@gmail.com<mailto:geoffryanster@gmail.com>> wrote:
My contribution to the Starling discussion:
*THE COMMON STARLING*
The common starling’s not the darling
Of humans in this land
But why decried and vilified
I do not understand.
Is it their success and life prowess
Producing swirling flocks
Most common bird seen or heard
‘Round Eastern farming blocks.
A pleasant call, not harsh at all
Iridescent breeding plume
Their beauty’s there for all to share
Not admired, I presume.
They fill a niche increasing rich
Spawned by crops and farms
But also feast on bugs and beast
Protecting crops from harm.
Do they enjoy or just destroy
A farmers right to earn
Reducing grain and thus the gain
To a point of no return?
Perhaps the hatred’s more predated
Bequeathed by English vile
Colonial error a foreign terror
Enough to churn our bile.
We in the East must try at least
To accept their subtle charm
Whereas the West must do its best
To keep starlings off the farm.
/Geoff Ryan/
2016
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I do so agree with all that has been said re starlings. Humans have introduced these birds/animals. They had no day in the matter.
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