
… from yonder ivy-mantled tow’r The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as, wandering near her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign.
EYE SPY
Dear old Dicky Stork is still cawing away, if that’s what storks do, from his nest high on the chimney pots of Burlington House. I can hear him from here, and it’s even worse when the wind’s in the East. He seems to be quite a fixture there nowadays, but then if he caws what the Wildlife Managers in the Academy Zoo below want him to caw, he won’t get the chimney-sweep’s broom up the bottom for a while yet. He works as some sort of beady eye or look-out to give the ground-feeders early warning of what’s going on elsewhere. And what has just caught his eye is a foreign exotic or rare vagrant, blown in all the way from Mexico on all this Global Warming we’ve been having lately, and now come to roost at Tate Modern.
It seems this particular bird, Gabriel’s Orozco, is so rare a sight as to make any twitcher twitch like fury, Storky included. So unpredictable is he, indeed, that no twitcher can “pin him down” –
which I thought was only what one did to butterflies. I may be wrong. Even so, perhaps it’s just as well young Ostrich (one of the rare flying ones, I’m told) seems to be pretty quick on
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Moping Owl: Eye spy
… from yonder ivy-mantled tow’r The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as, wandering near her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign.
EYE SPY
Dear old Dicky Stork is still cawing away, if that’s what storks do, from his nest high on the chimney pots of Burlington House. I can hear him from here, and it’s even worse when the wind’s in the East. He seems to be quite a fixture there nowadays, but then if he caws what the Wildlife Managers in the Academy Zoo below want him to caw, he won’t get the chimney-sweep’s broom up the bottom for a while yet. He works as some sort of beady eye or look-out to give the ground-feeders early warning of what’s going on elsewhere. And what has just caught his eye is a foreign exotic or rare vagrant, blown in all the way from Mexico on all this Global Warming we’ve been having lately, and now come to roost at Tate Modern.
It seems this particular bird, Gabriel’s Orozco, is so rare a sight as to make any twitcher twitch like fury, Storky included. So unpredictable is he, indeed, that no twitcher can “pin him down” –
which I thought was only what one did to butterflies. I may be wrong. Even so, perhaps it’s just as well young Ostrich (one of the rare flying ones, I’m told) seems to be pretty quick onProudly powered by LiteSpeed Web Server
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