butcher bird songsters
piping loud their magic flutes
like dawn nightingales
NOTE
Butcher bird territory spreads across mainland Australia.
The one pictured above is a youngster (photographed on my verandah rail).
All those brown tones will darken to black.
Their song impressed Olivier Messiaen, who incorporated pied butcherbird song into his last work,
Éclairs sur l’au-delà.
More detail about the butcher bird and their musical range of song is HERE
(scroll down to just above the WARNING ad for their swooping habits!)
Linking to:
Haiku Heights ~ April Heights Haiku Month ~ Nightingale
8 comments:
That is wonderful poetry and a fabulous photo. I have never heard of butcher birds so enjoyed learning about them x
piping loud their magic flutes intrigued me! I'm off to find their song. Thanks!
Echo
Impressed by knowledge and connectivity.
http://neelamhere.wordpress.com/2013/04/16/nightingale/
Piping loud is so right and these song birds must be the cousin's of the Indian Koel!!
Must have come to serenade you Gemma!! :)
'Piping loud' is so apt...!!!A poet can actually fall into a reverie while listening to nightingale songs.:)
"Piping" is the perfect word here!
Nightingale
Real fine words
Beautiful writing and photo.
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