~ ~ • ~ ~
“Twinkle, twinkle little star,
How I wonder what you are!
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky.”
~ traditional English lullaby [from a poem by Jane Taylor (1783-1824)]
~ ~ • ~ ~
“Twinkle, twinkle little bat,
How I wonder what you’re at!
Up above the world you fly,
Like a tea-tray in the sky.”
~ Lewis Carroll [or the Mad Hatter, if you will]
~ ~ • ~ ~
“Twinkle, twinkle little crow,
How I wonder what you know!
Up above the deck so high,
Like an ominous evil eye.”
~ Ally Bean [blogger extraordinaire who likes to rhyme]
~ ~ • ~ ~
PLEASE NOTE: It has been brought to my attention that the stupid birds in these photos are not crows. These birds are something called TURKEY VULTURES. So, with the help of Zen-Den, I have rewritten my verse to accurately reflect this fact. Here goes:
“Twinkle, twinkle turkey vulture,
How I wonder what’s your culture.
Up above the deck so high,
Like an ominous evil eye.”
THE SPECTACLED BEAN 
Crows don’t have red beaks. I’m no expert but those may be what some peope call “turkey vultures.” I would very much like to see you rhyme “turkey vulture.” “Twinkle, twinkle turkey vulture – how you are so misunderstood in our culture . . . “
LikeLike
REALLY? Those aren’t crows?! Well, slap me on the butt and call me Sally. I wondered about the red on the beak, but figured that I’d just never noticed it before.
I don’t like that those icky birds were something called turkey vultures. Both because that name sounds dreadful + I’ll never be able to make a good rhyme with it.
What a defeat all around. *head to desk*
LikeLike
Wait, you did the rhyme, didn’t you? I’m clearly flummoxed here. *sigh*
LikeLike
See what attention to detail brings to enlightened individuals – misery. I hate myself for having brought “workplace madness” upon you.
LikeLike
Oh don’t be silly. I like details. That’s where life is. And in this particular case, the details are showing me how uninformed I am regarding birds. 😉
LikeLike
Oh I really hope they are not turkey vultures. Crows are bad enough 🙂
LikeLike
winsomebella, I wish that they weren’t but I think that Z-D is right. They were big and ugly and gave me the creeps.
LikeLike
Twinkle, twinkle little scribe,
How I wonder what you imbibe.
High above most blogs I know,
Funny topics – way to go!
A bit lame, but the best I could come up with when Tom and Jerry are playing in the background. Yep, it’s still half term here.
LikeLike
Polly, you are the best! What a good verse. I think that Tom and Jerry just might be your muses. Thanks for stopping. You’ve made my day. 🙂
LikeLike
🙂
LikeLike
A great verse. Ally Bean is indeed the BEST! Thanks Polly. More Tom & Jerry for Mankind.
LikeLike
Yikes! Reminds me of the scene from Act V in Julius Caesar by Shakespeare!
LikeLike
nance, having taken a quick look at Julius Caesar Act V in Sparknotes, I agree with you. As I read the summary I got the heebie jeebies thinking about those stupid birds. Good reference, my dear.
LikeLike
Our turkey vultures are really big…you see them circling in the air over something…and you hope it isn’t you!
Twinkle Twinkle big odd birds
(How hard to think of perfect words)
Up above featherless creatures you fly
Do you think “what’s for dessert?’ when up there in the sky?
(OK, it was really hard not to end it with some form of “Die weaklings, die!”…that’s just too creepy…)
Thanks for the morning’s laugh
LikeLike
philosophermouse, I can’t stop laughing here. Dear lord, do you suppose that these large, dark, mean birds really think of us as dessert?!! I don’t like that image in my head at all. Thanks, I think.
LikeLike
Turkey vultures are quite relaxing to watch glide around in the sky. Half the time, I’m not sure whether my big gliding birds are turkey vultures or juvenile eagles. Also known as buzzards, by the way, but I am not coming up with a rhyme for buzzard. You, Z-D and Polly are the rhymiest!
LikeLike
Zazzy, we don’t have enough open sky around here to watch birds glide, so I’ll take your word for it about watching these birds. When this group of birds arrived in our backyard they descended in one dark, noisy swoop; then they sat around long enough for me to snap a few photos before flying off. Turkey vultures are buzzards? Didn’t know that.
LikeLike
Just checked RhymeZone.com for a rhyme to “buzzard”- according to the site “no perfect rhymes were found.” I guess that’s why we call them “turkey vultures.”
LikeLike
Zazzy, no need for a rhyme for buzzard:
Twinkle, twinkle turkey vultures
Known as buzzards in some cultures
High above Ohio fields
Circling like cogs and wheels…
With apologies for adding in another syllable in the first couplet where it’s not supposed to be.
LikeLike
Polly, this is great. You have a gift for this. Another skill to add to your resume!
LikeLike
Marvelous!
LikeLike
And, yes, things are a little slow at work right now.
LikeLike
Zen-Den, I was kind of wondering. Now it all makes sense.
LikeLike
I was scared to death by turkey vultures one day while walking Mozart. One swooped down 5 feet from us and scooped up a squirrel, with another vulture on its heels. Needless to say, I screamed quite loudly!
LikeLike
Beth, that sounds awful! I’d scream, too. These birds that I photographed [which were not crows ;-)] were large & beady-eyed. They weren’t bothered by me and my camera standing on the deck, so I can see where you and mild-mannered Mozart posed no threat to them.
LikeLike
I only know that they are birds, and not particularly attractive! 🙂
LikeLike
Margaret, so you’re not a ornithologist, either. Cute birds I can identify, but this bunch– not so much. Strange that they appeared out of nowhere. I’ll give ’em that.
LikeLike
I rather like crows myself. But vultures … not so much.
LikeLike
These birds were menacing. I’d much rather see my trees filled with a flock of robins! Not to mention that rhyming with robin would be so much more fun– than vulture.
LikeLike
OMG!!! We have had an invasion of crows in our neighborhood this spring. I have no idea why. They wake us up at o’dark thirty every morning. Caw, Caw, Caw. I hate them!
LikeLike
Robin, I wouldn’t like crows around all the time. Noisy, menacing & messy. Yuck. That’d be too much like the movie The Birds.
LikeLike
Not to put too fine a point on it but there’s a reason those birds are perched there: some tasty half-dead dinner lies below. They like to dine in each other’s company. You want to see ugly just wait until the turkey vultures alight.
LikeLike
Excellent point. Had not thought of that before. We live on a wooded ravine lot so who knows what might have been down there. Poor thing.
LikeLike
Those birds give me the shivers.
LikeLike
Me too. But I had to get a few shots of them while I had the chance.
LikeLike
Ha! I’m amused by your verse(s) and by all the discussion and futher verse they have generated. (Now I will probably find myself trying out my own as I attempt to go about my business.)
LikeLike
alejna, I find it amusing, too. This is one of those posts where EVERYBODY chimed in. Go figure.
LikeLike