harp like sound
from spring rosella
song so clear
With Spring comes frequent visits from various parrots. Crimson Rosellas usually arrive in pairs or small family groups. The first image is a fly by guest who dropped into our front yard , the second image shows these Rosellas can quickly train humans to feed them. If not fed they work on wooden structures to reinforce their requests, (see the rail in front of the bowl after a quick chew with a beak). Crimson and Eastern Rosellas have a range of song/noises. One sound is a single high pitched and loud “pinnnnnng” that is used to signal where they are to a mate. Close your eyes and ones imagination could almost think a harpist, (maybe not Laureena McKennitt) was tuning up.
This is my contribution to the wonderful Blog site RonovanWrites Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge. This is number 65 using words Harp&Clear. Discover much more at https://ronovanwrites.wordpress.com/2015/10/05/ronovanwrites-weekly-haiku-poetry-prompt-challenge-65-harp-clear/
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Wow, what a beautiful bird you’ve captured here, Denis, and love your melodious haiku this morning. Have a great day today. 🙂
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Thanks Laura, I think I see you are sketching birds again i must check.
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Beautiful: for me: spring in fall (here), a beautiful red bird and haiku–I’d love to hear its call and you reminded me of Loreena McKennitt–I’ll have to pull out a CD while I’m in a harp mood.
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Thanks for your wonderful thoughts Janice. Loreena is one of my favourites and I was lucky to see and hear her in concert on her only visit to Australia way back in the 90’s sometime.
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Great Haiku and a lesson on parrots. Poets have such varied habits!
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Thanks Clarence. You may have noticed birds often feature in my haiku posts, they offer such immediate stimuli to the mind by their antics
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Hi Denis! What a beautiful bird! The haiku is great and I really enjoyed the pictures. Have a wonderful day! 😀
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They are beautiful, the Eastern Rosella is even more brilliant, bright yellow, green and red. We see them locally in equal numbers. Thanks for your comments on the haiku
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I’ve been enjoying the migration south of the birds here but nothing this flashy passes by – you have some amazing birds where you live.
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We are lucky to have these birds around all year. Often they live in the golf courses and come out more into the suburbs during Spring and summer
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Obviously that family has been there before and was wondering where it’s welcome home meal was. 🙂
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They have and they do. In fact almost every house in bush country in Australia would have permanent parrot co-habs
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Beautiful words
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Thanks Ruby, these birds are easy stimuli to write haiku.
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Thanks for keeping the creative mind working Ronovan.
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