A Little-Tern Colony Poem by Mark Heathcote

Donald Trump said wind turbines are bird killers.
Well-that-blew my mind & had me thinking about
recent holidays to the Norfolk coastline
where I walked beside a little tern colony,
that has a stretch of beach dunes wire-fenced.

They say these rare birds are facing any number of threats,
threats from predators, dogs & human disturbance
that even toy kites can appear as large birds of prey
and just a few miles away from Winterton-on-Sea,
where they spend their summer breeding, I can see-

the Scroby Sands Wind Farm, construction cost: 87-
million EUR,30 wind turbines, each turbine has three
40-metre (130 ft.) Blades that rotate (200 ft.)
Above sea level, these West African birds
have suffered chronic declines
numbers are dwindling for our UK's rarest seabirds.

And all we do is ask for volunteers to build fences
pray that deer & foxes stay away & numbers
restore themselves to some forgotten yesterday,
Donald Trump said wind turbines are bird killers
big-white killing bird scissors; who am I to disagree?