Every day the goldfinch squabble around
the niger seed in the metal feeder.
Flashes of red and gold tumbling through air;
not so much a charm as a bickering..
Plainer sparrows, males sporting neat black caps,
perch on bare branches before swooping in.
Their tastes being much less specialised,
sunflower and nuts will serve well enough.
Winter guests include bramblings and redpolls
but the robin is never far away,
while starlings dressed in snow spotted suits
gather on the boughs of the Elder tree.
The greater spotted woodpecker not yet seen,
still deterred by the pesky squirrels
Joan Bailey
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