Ever wonder about us birders

Of course you have - we all have.

 

And rightly so - the secret is now out:

 

 And 24/7.

 

Takes one to know one,

Sincerely,

Wise Old Bird 

Best intentions gang aft a-gley

 Some felt that simply the page of 5 poems was enough:

https://rhapsodieswiseoldbird.blogspot.com/2026/02/6-more-weeks-of-haikuing-through-winter.html 

And that these two pages didn't add anything:

 https://rhapsodieswiseoldbird.blogspot.com/2026/02/june-20th-mainly-2025.html

 https://rhapsodieswiseoldbird.blogspot.com/2026/02/rainbows-and-puffins.html

So having started the illustrations for fun, here are the last

three for you to enjoy, I hope.

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#3
Sea Pinks along the cliffs
Nesting with Puffins, Fulmars,
Nature Lovers smile.
 
#4
Sea pinks on the rock,
Fair Isle coast in salty wind,
Pink cushions hold fast.
 
#5
Sea pinks shimmering -
Dewy droplets lovers shed.
Fragile strength embrace.

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 #3
Sea Pinks along the cliffs

 

Nesting with Puffins, Fulmars,

 

Nature Lovers smile.

 

 #4
Sea pinks on the rock,

 

Fair Isle coast in salty wind,

 

Pink cushions hold fast.

 

 #5
Sea pinks shimmering -

 

Dewy droplets lovers shed.

 

Fragile strength embrace.

 

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A comment. With 3 poems in this entry there is a reason to think of 2 cases: one - all 3 poems were written by WOB and then #1 and #2 must have been written by HAL  which of course means:

HAL's name, according to Clarke, is derived from Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer.

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAL_9000

Or there are mixed authors for #1 and #2  and also for these last three poems. Take your pick and let me know your thoughts, please. What could be simpler? Well, not writing is also simple, sadly.

 

WOB 

Rainbows and Puffins

 #2
Rainbows on hill tops,
Puffins reigning supreme.
Glad am I for this.

 

 

 

Indeed,

WOB 

June 20th, mainly, 2025

 #1
Coastal windswept home,
Pink spheres on slender stems sway,
Salt air, sun-drenched life.

 

 

Coastal 

 windswept home

 

Pink spheres on slender stems sway

 Salt air

 sun-drenched life

 

 WOB

6 more weeks of haikuing through Winter

 Panic Point Perry saw its shadow yesterday - 6 more weeks of Winter!

Wonderful.

And we have had 6 weeks approx since December 21. And there are approximately 13 weeks per season ( 4 X 13 = 52 weeks/year). so what is one week more or less from the expected?

 So my fevered frost-bitten water-on-the-brain splitting hairs
has lead me to write 3 Japanese style poems, haikus, of
3 lines with 5, 7, and 5 syllables. And I don't know what got
into me but I decided to give Goggle artificial intelligence
the same info and see whether it could come up with
anything. It did, resulting in 5 poems - can you tell who
wrote what? 

Actually, I wrote a couple of poems before giving "HAL" all the information that I had - Fair Isle, Sea Pinks, several birds that I had photographed, and then with "HAL"'s  2 poems I wrote some more.

That means to me that the poems are not all that different/independent.

The poems have been arranged alphabetically by 1st line.
 
#1
Coastal windswept home,
Pink spheres on slender stems sway,
Salt air, sun-drenched life.
 
#2
Rainbows on hill tops,
Puffins reigning supreme.
Glad am I for this.
 
#3
Sea Pinks along the cliffs
Nesting with Puffins, Fulmars,
Nature Lovers smile.
 
#4
Sea pinks on the rock,
Fair Isle coast in salty wind,
Pink cushions hold fast.
 
#5
Sea pinks shimmering -
Dewy droplets lovers shed.
Fragile strength embrace.

I intend to illustrate each poem  in its own entry in the coming days.

I hope you will enter the spirit and tell the world why you think a particular haiku poem was written by either AI, aka "HAL", or by me, aka WOB . I shall consider how I proceed at a later date. Have fun.

 

WOB 

Ruffed Grouse

 Rufous Grouse on high

 Fluffèd round by Arctic chill

 Silent observer

 

WOB

It is snowing and blowing here in Mariposa!

 Inspiration from old blogs - and the fear that the perspiration will freeze - Volker, als Angstschweiss!

 Can't find Mariposa? Why? Because  we are snowed under!

It is the season for angels sprouting wings  - I actually know a real

"angel" - he is called Dieter! And although I have known him for many

decades I do not have a photo to show of him. However, I did have the good fortune to see where an angel had been on Thursday January 7, 2016:

 

 It is a little difficult to see, Let me move a little further.

 For scale, the snowshoe tracks are about 40 - 45cm long. The bird, an owl, appears to have caught something. Unfortunately I cannot read the bar code.

 

 So I cannot track the parcel, either.

 

 I guess I am stumped.

 The case is cold.

 I guessed at the time that this might have been evidence for flying reindeer.

 

WOB