Black Shouldred Kite Poem by Francis Duggan

She has her young to feed in stick nest on tall tree nearby
With flapping wings she hunts from the sunlit sky
On the one spot whilst looking towards the ground
To stalk small bird or small animal prey in the grass moving around
With dark patch on bluish wings and unders grayish white
The bird of prey known as the black shouldered kite
In Australia her sort are a common sight
They surprise their prey by dropping on it from a great height
Three to four white eggs blotched brown in Spring the female lay
To feed their young the parent birds take turns to feed their young by day
Like a kite hanging in the sky an amazing sight to see
Quite familiar birds to many and to me
One can say of them courage they does not lack
Humans walking near their nesting tree they even will attack.