Monday, November 28, 2022

Birds 15 - Great Knot Comments

Rating: 5.0

A Great Knot was detected
at Chavakkad beach
near Guruvayur, Kerala
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Unnikrishnan Sivasankara Menon
COMMENTS
Alyx True Edge 22 July 2024

This is beautiful educational poetry and in nine stanzas you convey the gist of what to know and honours the species, thank you 5/5

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Thank you Alyx. This poem was the POD on 26 December 2022

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Rose Marie Juan-austin 29 December 2022

Congratulations for having this poem chosen as Poem Of The Day. A beautiful and well thought out poem.

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Thank You, Rose Marie. Great Knot is not species natural to the tropics. It lives in the Arctic. So it was a great feeing to see it here

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Rob Lamberton 27 December 2022

Enjoyed learning about the Great Knot. Thank you for your poetic teaching!

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It is a great pleasure, Rob. Thank You

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Kumarmani Mahakul 26 December 2022

The grey waterside birds Aristotle called ‘Kalidris' and tenuirostris means 'slender bill'.....clarified nicely. Beautiful poem.

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Great Knot is not a common bird in India and the itself not known to many. So, some additional information and clarification was necessary. Thank You, Mahakul Saheb.

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Kim Barney 26 December 2022

Very informative and interesting. Congrats on member poem of the day!

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Thank you sir, for your time, reading the poem and marking your observations,

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This is my Fifth POD MEMBER after My PODs 1) When I Die (pod on 22 April 2022) 2) A Grain of Rice (pod on 01 June 2022) 3) Not Everybody Has Got An Axe To Grind (pod on 18 June 2022) 4) The Swan And Me (pod on 31 October 2022)

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Rose Marie Juan-austin 26 December 2022

A beautiful and informative poem. It expresses in detail the wonderful attributes of the Great Knot. Congratulations for having this poem as Poem Of The Day.

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Thank You, Rose Marie. I am an ardent birdwatcher. So, when this bird appeared at Chavakkad beach near my home, I made a visit. With the help of some friends I could not only identify the bird, but see the metal band on its legs.

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Dr Dillip K Swain 26 December 2022

I am jealous of joyful lives of birds. I love your birds' series dear Unniji. Many congratulations for this beautiful poem being featured as Poem of the Day!

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Thank You, Dillipji for following my page. You are the first person, once again, to inform me of POD today. Thank You.

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Grateful to you for the nice words.

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Thank you, Dillipji. But, mind you, I am knot an Ornithologist.

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Geeta Radhakrishna Menon 30 November 2022

Wonderful poem on the Great Knot.......thanks......10

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I always look forward to reading your comments on my poems. Thank You for reading and marking your observations.

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Nice day, Geeta

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Nabakishore Dash 29 November 2022

A beautiful poem as beautiful as the migratory bird in photograph.

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Great pleasure. Thank You

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Dr Dillip K Swain 28 November 2022

A great depiction of the migratory birds on to the sea beach of Kerala. I love this poem.

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It is a mystery how, out of twenty birds tagged at Kamchatka Peninsula, two reached Indian shores of the Arabian Sea, one in Kerala and the other in Gujarat. The other eighteen tGg

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Out of the twenty Great Knots tagged at Kamchatka Peninsula by the Russian scientists, the remaining 18 birds are not sighted yet. Nature keeps a lot of mysteries up Her sleeves.

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David Wood 28 November 2022

Another good write, we have similar birds here too though I've not noticed any with tags.

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Great Knot is migratory. During winter, (its breeding season) it travels to the humid warmer shores, from the freezing Tundra in Siberia.

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Unnikrishnan Sivasankara Menon

Unnikrishnan Sivasankara Menon

PUTHENCHIRA, KERALA, INDIA
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