Poem:Photo - the Osprey

2016 Hamlin Park nest
Photo by Steve Schneider

I am an OSPREY you can see

I like to nest up high

I have to live near water

Now I will tell you why

My food of choice why it is Fish

I’m called a bird of Prey

Well FISH HAWK is what I am called

The fish can’t get away

I hover up above them

Then plunge so swiftly down

My long sharp talons grasp the fish

I do not make a sound

I feed them to my babies

I usually have three

Their colors all are brown and white

Well HEY they look like me

I like to live on tops of trees

On telephone poles and such

And now I’m on your playfield light

I thank you very much

Jean Monce Bryant