Bird Song - Crow

Crow

I detest the Carrion Crow!

(He's a raven, don't you know?)

  He's a greedy glutton, also, and a ghoul,

And his sanctimonious caw

Rubs my temper on the raw.

  He's a demon, and a most degraded fowl.

Blue Wren

I admire the pert Blue-wren

And his dainty little hen-

  Though she hasn't got a trace of blue upon her;

But she's pleasing, and she's pretty,

  And she sings a cheerful ditty;

While her husband is a gentleman of honour.

Cuckoo

I despise the Pallid Cuckoo,

A disreputable "crook" who

  Shirks her duties for a lazy life of ease.

I abhor her mournful call,

Which is not a song at all

  But a cross between a whimper and a wheeze.