A female cardinal fluffs her feathers in April’s cool breeze, one Ozark Mountain day.
Tag Archives: Bird
Haiku in May
slice of orange
handful of black seedless grapes
Baltimore Oriole
© Freeda Baker Nichols
Color of Friendship
yellow
color of friendship
and cowards
© Freeda Baker Nichols
Banner Mountain Girl # 64 –haiku
white and blue feathers
a perch by the water trough
blue jay in winter
© Freeda Baker Nichols
Banner Mountain Girl # 53– HAPPY NEW YEAR
May your New Year be happy and blessed!
Cedar Waxwing in the Ozarks in winter.
BANNER MOUNTAIN GIRL # 50 cedar waxwing
This cedar waxwing visited my yard today and drank water from the pan. A small group of cedar waxwings come by now and then, but they don’t stay long. They are unique in the way they are dressed so smoothly in drab colors highlighted by red and yellow feathers at the tip of the wings and tail. The black stripe around the eyes looks like a mask. Some people call this bird “bandit.” I never saw cedar waxwings on Banner Mountain when I was a child. I love watching them now when they fly in to visit a while and I feel lucky when they pose for a photograph. — Freeda Baker Nichols
Mourning Dove
summertime
the mourning dove feeds
alone
© Freeda Baker Nichols
Listen to the Mockingbird . . .
parent mockingbird watches over her babies
in the hedge bush
Baby Mockingbird
parent mockingbird
Baby Mockingbird
watches over the young
after August rain
hedge bush sways in breeze
parent bird carries insects
to the baby birds
the mockingbird’s sound
not the song of another —
keeps her babies hid
© Freeda Baker Nichols
Freeda Baker Nichols 