Flying Backwards Comments

My seventh in a succession of canaries died last Sept. I wonder if one or more of them could fly backwards but couldn't try because the cage was not geared for it. It's provocative to think of possibilities lost due to domestication. Then again there are compensations: Mozart scored his canary's song into his 27th and last piano concerto. BTW I think there is a poem latent in your prose comment: you can call it The Watcher and describe you patience in observing wild birds' flight pattern and SUDDENLY become aware of the birds WATCHING YOUR BEHAVIOR! !

It so interesting to watch birds..... Happy to know that you too are a bird lover! As a child I had such a fascination for birds that I used to wander through the woods looking for the birds and their nests! Even now they delight me. I used to keep love birds and finches at home. Now as I have to keep away from home very often, I have stopped keeping birds. If we set up bird feeders, the entire feed will be eaten away by crows or squirrels as we have them here in plenty. It is a new knowledge for me that birds can fly backwards! Lovely observations!

A lovely and interesting write...I love birds, especially doves!

I suppose it depends on their definition of flying. Fun poem, Kim. Thanks

It appears to me as if it is a small part of the recording of a quiz show. Last line of the poem brings an anti-climax. Poet's Notes are an icing on the cake. Graphic is eye catching. Thanks.

Nice poem, and beautiful picture. TFS

a lovely poem on bird, thanks for sharing