Feeding the Birds

Wind snow wind snow wind

Snow wind rain ice snow wind rain

Ice! ice! Ice! repeat.

Skat @2022

Black-Capped

Chickadee couple,

daily at my feeders—I

Couldn’t be more pleased.

Skat@2020

Catch-22

Oranges and nectar
for colorful birds, attract
detested insects.

skat@2018

Psycho

Frozen feeders need
raging stabs with kitchen knife,
manic-faced in deed.

skat@2018

Cleaning Day

Rinsed red silo hangs;
hummingbird’s truly flummoxed.
Bare feeder-hook thing
dangling from chokecherry branch–
one sparrow swings so gaily.

skat@2017