Day 18: Create a observation log of a specific species
of bird that you have been monitoring throughout the challenge.

There’s a Squirrel in the Birdbath

A robin flies into the window,
makes a sound.
It’s nowhere to be seen.

When a pigeon does that,
there’s flapping and crashing,
you’d think an assassin got at it.

There’s a nest in the grapevine
with chicks. They weep and sing
like Adam’s children.

A grey squirrel’s
in the birdbath. A pigeon joins in.

The robin has returned.
A silhouette on the fence
with winged insects in its beak.

It twitters a funnel of music
into my ear.

The nest belongs to the robin.

The garden has taken on
a peculiarly morbid theme.
Shifting shadows in the roses.

The robin watches
the beans and peas ebbing away.
Browns and siena.

The odds aren’t on rain soon.

Written for the Wildness Challenge, Day 18