Red-winged Blackbird – Icterid Voices

Icterid Voices

Spring quickens in the vernal marsh
Guttural, gurgling Icterid voices broadcast far and wide
Challengers tear at the tranquility
Scarlet epaulettes flare like glowing embers
Imperceptible boundaries are drawn
Dominions declared
The propertied are set to arouse the feminine gender
... soon to arrive

~ Poem and Red-winged Blackbird capture, Icterid Voices © Jerry L. Ferrara