Thursday, April 22, 2010

Birdwatching by Laurie Molloy

He carefully places the birdhouse
tenderly puts out seeds everyday.
Yay, the birds are here to eat!
Swoosh, come the squirrels
furry and hungry, shooing the birds-
out comes Grandpa, sad to see
squirrels eating bird food.
Out he goes to a hardware store
buys some traps, humane of course.
Round round, his tires go,
and then return to capture squirrels.
Round round, his tires go
scratch, scratch
"ouch! " my leg, says Grandpa,
darn these humane traps,
he thinks cause the squirrel got out-
clawing his legs as he drives the squirrels
to their new home on the other side of the woods-
far from his birds.

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