Who needs an alarm clock, when you have courting peewees? This week we’ve become reacquainted with our resident peewee (up with the sun!) and I’m reminded of this poem & pic from 2019. The form is a fib – based on the Fibonacci sequence – but it’s no fib that we’ve been losing sleep over this little door-knocker and his mirror-image mimic in my bedroom glass! It’s hard to be the dominant male when your opponent mimics all your combat moves to perfection.
(It’s not very easy to sleep, either!)
Thanks Catherine at Reading to the Core for hosting our Poetry Friday gathering this week.
Kathryn Apel 
O peewee, waking up the world! ‘Round these parts, all the birds are huddled in their nests…I do miss birdsong during the winter months (though it is startling how LOUD such a small creature can be!). xo
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Brrrrr… Poor little birdies!
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I love the intent look on peewee’s face! It takes some concentration to be a good mimic. They are noisy when courting, eh? I hope they make their matches soon 🙂
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I think that’s the concentration required to overcome the mimicking male in the ‘mirror’. He fair throws himself at the glass, but it perfectly counteracts all his attacks.🤦♀️
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Oh, I didn’t know about this mimic in your land, Kat! It’s pretty but. . . We had a ‘knocker’ woodpecker once who would not quit until my husband nailed some paper over its favorite spot. Courtship, in humans, too, can amaze!
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My husband hung a quilt from the roof over the slat fence – and it seems to have sorted the problem! We have tried many different things over the years – so I am amazed how well this is working!!
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Years and years ago, my husband and I vacationed on Heron Island and were treated to a constant cacophony of “rails” at our door, window, patio, porch, roof — and they were not nearly as pretty as your peewees!
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I did not know this about Heron Island. Thanks for sharing.
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Great photo, Kat, and you made the best of it with your fib! Lovely sounds, as well. I hope to meet a peewee in person someday…
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They’re rather sweet/silly birds, Heidi. Though they definitely stretch the friendship in spring!
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Thanks for a peek into the birdlife in your part of the world! Poor peewee, trying to banish the competitor in the reflection!
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He is nothing if not persistent!
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Wonderful poem Kat, and what an enchanting bird– hope it lets up so you can catch up on your sleep
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Thanks, Michelle. Yes please.🥱
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Thank you for introducing us to this peewee! He looks very determined to outdo his competitor!
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