Stine Writing and Miniatures

What do you see, Little bird?

Sadje’s Prompt: https://lifeafter50forwomen.com/category/what-do-you-see/

What do you see #296- 7th July, 2025

Sweet little bird sitting by my side
Out in the great wide open, nowhere near to hide
Sings a simple song, ’bout Mother Nature’s plan
Singing sweet and loudly, just because he can
No one near will hurt him, he’s safe from any harm
Looking for a place to go, I’m holding out my arm
He flits from tree to tree, and spies me from afar
He is a little super hero, he is a super star
He lands with great precision, right there on to me
Another gift from nature, a gift for me to see.

©2025 CBialczak

24 comments

      • It wasn’t a pet but wild birds that had learned to come to the little hand-held feeder! I was mesmerized by the sound of their wings and the breeze they created!!

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      • Hehe! You are talking to a Vet Tech – I’ve had so many odd pets and I’d have so many more but Sparky is allergic to all my favorite animals (cats, rats, bats, and of course mice)!

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      • A vet tech! Good for you! I love all the little critters but you won’t catch me touching anything bloody or infected or anything poop related! Hahaha, my best friend up north is a wildlife rehabilitator and we’ve done a few procedures like using Bondo to repair a turtle’s shell after being hit by a car and splinting a tiny bird’s leg when it was broken. I loved living next door to her because she would call me over whenever she had new animals. Last year she nursed a raven back to health and he was able to be let go. He came back this year with a mate and a baby!

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      • Christine I’ve worked in small animal practices with mostly cats and dog, in a practice that did zoo work and exotics, and in research with almost all the other animals! There are several rehabilitators in the area – we used to provide mice and rats to the raptor rehab and they had a really good success rate with hawks and owls… I helped do orthopedic surgery on a hamster, tended wounds on a lemur, cleaned the teeth of a cougar and drawn blood from a opossum! I really do miss the animals but I don’t miss the nasty parts….

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      • My friend the rehabber called me last night with a funny story. Apparently, animal control in the town called her saying that some kids found a chick in a ball field. They said they thought it was a turkey. Mary felt that it was too small to be a turkey. She contacted a friend of hers who is a bird expert and he said he really couldn’t tell but it had the correct markings to say it was a turkey. Well, long story short after more investigation she learned that the playing field is next to a shooting club of some sort or at least the growers of birds to give to the clubs. It was some exotic pheasant. Mary told her husband that they now have a new pet because she said there was no way she was going to give it back to them just so they could shoot it and eat it! hahahaha!

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      • That’s the way it happens! We visited a woman who specialized in water fowl, she was given some chicks that she was told were ducks – one look and she knew they weren’t. Turned out to be some sort of show chickens – Polish? Lots of feathers that grew in every direction… So she ended up with 3 chickens as pets. I’m glad she is keeping the pheasant!

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