I am old now - more in than out
but I still have eye for the birds
the feathered type of course!
I'm happy in Spring - birds return
I sit in chair by french window
and I count birds!
I count by colour not name
I was bookkeeper - I record numbers
I start at ten precisely.
Granddaughter brings Kaffe und Kuken!
Du bist zustimmung Grossvater? She asks
Ja ich bin sehr gut Gretchen! I reply.
Outside window -pond - bird bath - bird table
My record sheet has columns - brown - black - white
blue - green - red - yellow - this covers all birds.
I have my lunch by window at 12: 30 pm.
Soup - sandwich - mehr Kaffe und Kuchen
I finish at 3 and enter sightings in log.
Breown (57) Black (13) White (31) *
Blue (3) green (2) red (5) yellow (0)
I am old now - more out than in,
*
* Mainly sea-birds we are near the Coast.
John Knight - Still Bird Watching - 13 March 2011
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