Come Young Pirates, A White-Tailed Fox Causes Great Alarm (32) Poem by Captain Cur

Ah! Spain's illustrious Canary Islands!
Life's primal vials shaken by nature's hand
stoked by cloud filled skies framed in rustic blue
giving might to an ocean's sheltered view.
Peering from above, a Chaffinch's quick look,
warming eggs from its twigged and grass lined nook;
the Chiffchaff warbling in its leafy domain
greeting us passersby with a throaty refrain,
Stonechat's sitting with a winking glance
resembling lithe Robins in length and stance.
In each glade uniqueness of specie found;
Berthelot Pipits nesting on the ground,
the Cream-Colored Courser with black striped eyes
pecking at sand under cloud drenched skies,
yellow breasted Gray Wagtail's singing in trills
catching insects beneath a marshy hill,
a male flutters, chirping with manly boasts,
prepared by nature for this day of note,
females listening with discreet charm
while a white-tailed fox causes great alarm!