Daily Visitors

 these guys visit daily

foraging for crickets

grasshoppers

 seeds, june bugs, acorns

 dogwood berries, holly berries,

those i really dont mind them having

their great bronze bodies

the rhythmic puttputt

a gregarious gobble

are reward for the foraging

 but

they are often marauding

pillagers

stealing what should go into

my freezer

my grandsons pancakes and muffins

though i like to watch

and listen

 to often they end up

in the orchard

blueberries

grapes

and apples

are much tastier

than bugs, acorns, dogwood and holly berries

most of our crop this year

went through their gizzard

and out as fertilizer

somedays there were as many as

twenty-one large birds

and they eat a lot

and i didnt