Your fab photo complements this poem well.
I too have tended to dislike magpies for stealing other birds eggs but i
suppose all species do things like that.
bw
SallyE
on 18/10/03 4:22 pm, Gerald England at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Thanks for the comments
> really appreciated.
> It was only actually one tree that was felled
> but it took them all day.
> At first I thought they were just thinning out the lower branches
> to avoid any problems with high-sided traffic that sometimes passes
> but in the end the whole tree went.
> I took a photograph of the tree laden with magpies earlier this year
> and it can be viewed at
> http://www.nhi.clara.net/nhihome/ni002.htm
> I'm still trying to sort out exactly where are some of the buildings
> that I can now see in the distance from the bedroom window.
>
> yours
> Gerald
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bob Cooper" <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 5:42 PM
> Subject: Re: sijo
>
>
>> Hi Gerald,
>> You've made my imagination work well with this!
>> The houses, then the trees being felled, then the churches... how our
> lives
>> are ringed by distinct, different, things that can matter.
>> And, for me, magpies ain't friendly birds (they have a reputation for
>> stealing, they're said to be exterminating lots of other species by eating
>> their eggs) so I've got yet more to think over.
>> So much in just over 20 words...
>> Bob
>>
>>
>>> From: Gerald England <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>> Subject: sijo
>>> Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 17:22:27 +0100
>>>
>>> sijo
>>>
>>> all day
>>> we heard the chain-saws hum
>>> over the rooftops
>>> two churches now in view
>>> but when again
>>> will we see the magpies flock?
>>>
>>> Gerald England
>>>
>>> c&c welcome
>>
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