scribble bird
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Winter Wren
Troglodytes hiemalis
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How to find
centre of forest.
Joy the objective.
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Tiny tail
shivers as he sings.
Delirious trill.
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Troglodyte
darts into thickets,
creeps into crevasses.
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Lifts an eyebrow,
joins a chime of wrens.
Elusive ripple,
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varied trill,
incoherent whir,
tremble to warble.
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Distinguish
the note, the half-note,
the tone, the tangle.
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Forget where
you once were going,
indecisive
scribble bird.
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All my best,
Jane
nichepoetryandprose 
I love winter wrens and we always have a pair on our property! Great scribble!
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lee
July 16, 2018 at 2:21 pm
Me too. I have heard them for years and didn’t know what they were until a couple of years ago!
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jane tims
July 16, 2018 at 6:28 pm
Jane, I wish I could scribble like that! 🙂 Beautiful!
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Rebecca
July 3, 2018 at 11:47 pm
Hi Rebecca. Thanks. Do you have the winter wren where you are?
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jane tims
July 4, 2018 at 9:47 pm
I can’t say that I’ve ever seen a winter wren. I am most familiar with and often see the Carolina wren. The two look very similar. Carolina wrens are very pretty and spirited birds.
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Rebecca
July 5, 2018 at 2:18 am
I rarely see a winter wren, but I hear their delirious song almost every day through summer.
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jane tims
July 5, 2018 at 11:43 am