Photo thanks to my hubby AJ Collette

 

Known simply as Heckler

More than any other name

Tossing out insults

Was indeed his favorite game

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Early each morning

At the crack of dawn

He finds the highest tree top

To look down upon

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The comings and goings

The antics of them all

He watches and waits

Then lets out a heckling call

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“Big Man Blue Jay just got beaten

By a gang of hungry ants.

They marched off with his peanut

And ignored Big Man’s incessant rants!”

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“Tom Cat’s once again

Perched under the brush.

He’s hoping to get lucky

With his unattainable house cat crush!”

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“Then there’s the pair of love doves

Who dance and coo each day.

Their lovey-dovey romance

Makes me sick in every way!”

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“And I can’t forget Greg the Grackle

Who flips and flaps in the bath.

He’s an old man losing feathers

Though he acts as if he’s just hatched!”

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Suddenly Heckler saw his audience

Dwindle to but a few

As a large pair of wings

Above Heckler flew

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Red-tailed Hawk buzzed so close

Heckler for once had nothing to say

Instead he just felt lucky

He’d live to heckle another day