skip to main | skip to sidebar
There is no such thing as a God-forsaken town

Thursday, October 31, 2024

Poetry Friday: Birdtober 2024

Here are links to all the Birdtober poems I wrote in October. It was fun! I hope to do it again next year!

 

Day 1: Plush-crested Jay

Day 2: American Robin

Day 3: Mountain Bluebird

Day 4: Giant Kingfisher 

Day 5: Eastern Plantain-Eater 

Day 6: Red-winged Blackbird 

Day 7: Cardinals 

Day 8: Black-headed Heron 

Day 9: Gray Crowned-Crane 

Day 10: Speckled Mousebird

Day 11: Golden Swallow

Day 12: Red-billed Firefinch

Day 13: House Wren 

Day 14: White-necked Crow

Day 15: Red-headed Woodpecker

Day 16: Red-eyed Dove

Day 17: Rüppell's Starling

Day 18: House Sparrow

Day 19: Pink-backed Pelican

Day 20: Abyssinian Ground-Hornbill 

Day 21: Vervain Hummingbird

Day 22: Green Jay 

Day 23: Painted Bunting

Day 24: American Goldfinch

Day 25: Cedar Waxwing 

Day 26: Red-tailed Hawk 

Day 27: Striped Kingfisher 

Day 28: Mosque Swallow 

Day 29: Roseate Spoonbill 

Day 30: African Green-Pigeon 

Day 31: African Wood-Owl 

 

 

Patricia has today's roundup. 

Posted by Ruth at 4:00 AM

3 comments:

TraceyKJ said...

Ruth, that’s a lot of birds - and so many, I had not heard of before! I did a quick scan through them and they are each so unique and beautiful. Thank you for sharing them and for your wonderful poetry and observations!

9:55 AM
Linda B said...

Congratulations, Ruth! That's a mighty list!

12:23 PM
Mary Lee said...

What a month! What an avian richness! Perhaps a book?

4:55 AM

Post a Comment

Newer Post Older Post Home
View mobile version
Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

About Me

My photo
Ruth
I've been privileged to live in three of the world's great cities (Nairobi, Port-au-Prince and Asunción, Paraguay) as well as spending time in many others (including nine weeks in Paris as a college student). I just moved to a new city: Kampala, Uganda. I've also lived in smaller towns in three countries. In all of those places there have been difficult days, but I've never found a city or town yet where God is not, and I don't anticipate finding one in the future, either. The name of my blog comes from the song "Love is Always There," by Carolyn Arends.
View my complete profile

My Blog List

  • WritersDigest.com
    2 hours ago
  • Real Hope For Haiti
    4 hours ago
  • Petchary's Blog
    11 hours ago
  • Reflections on the Teche
    1 day ago
  • Across the Page
    1 day ago
  • Afoma Umesi
    1 day ago
  • Ornitheology
    1 day ago
  • Velvet Ashes
    1 day ago
  • Improv Everywhere
    1 day ago
  • Modern Mrs Darcy
    2 days ago
  • millinerd.com
    2 days ago
  • The Hub
    2 days ago
  • TWO WRITING TEACHERS
    2 days ago
  • Ethical ELA
    3 days ago
  • Smack Dab in the Middle
    4 days ago
  • Worthwhile Books
    5 days ago
  • Live Your Poem...
    6 days ago
  • Jama's Alphabet Soup
    6 days ago
  • Smart Classroom Management
    6 days ago
  • A Word Edgewise
    6 days ago
  • A Word Edgewise
    6 days ago
  • Hearing The Heartbeat
    6 days ago
  • ParadoxUganda
    1 week ago
  • Semicolon
    1 week ago
  • the beauty we love
    1 week ago
  • Discovering Nature
    1 week ago
  • Bloom
    1 week ago
  • Heavy Medal
    1 week ago
  • Knocking From Inside
    1 week ago
  • Poetrepository
    1 week ago
  • Anam Cara
    1 week ago
  • my juicy little universe
    1 week ago
  • Brenda's Bookshelf
    2 weeks ago
  • The Miss Rumphius Effect
    2 weeks ago
  • Nix the comfort zone
    4 weeks ago
  • Poetry Boost
    1 month ago
  • huffenglish.com
    4 months ago
  • Yet There is Method
    4 months ago
  • JonalynFincher.com
    5 months ago
  • The Painted Prayerbook
    5 months ago
  • Wondering and Wandering
    5 months ago
  • The Poem Farm
    6 months ago
  • Do Today Well
    8 months ago
  • Arrant Pedantry
    8 months ago
  • The Scriptorium Daily: Middlebrow
    11 months ago
  • David's Reflections
    1 year ago
  • Chicken Spaghetti
    1 year ago
  • Shattered Sun
    1 year ago
  • My funny, peculiar, precious life
    2 years ago
  • Reluctant Memsahib
    2 years ago
  • emily p. freeman
    2 years ago
  • Learn, Unlearn, & Relearn
    2 years ago
  • Go Poems
    2 years ago
  • Welcome to Healthy Lifestyle PAP !
    2 years ago
  • A Little Grace and Mercy
    2 years ago
  • Theater of life - Haiti
    2 years ago
  • SOS
    2 years ago
  • The Mistakes Anthology
    3 years ago
  • Before There Is a Word | "For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks." Matthew 12:34b
    3 years ago
  • Djibouti Jones
    3 years ago
  • A Year of Reading
    3 years ago
  • A Few Good Things
    4 years ago
  • Forgotten Bookmarks
    4 years ago
  • Blog - Kay Bruner
    4 years ago
  • Other Food: daily devos
    4 years ago
  • Modern Missionary Mamas
    5 years ago
  • Letters of Note
    5 years ago
  • Fiona West
    5 years ago
  • Sister Sarah's Excellent Adventure
    5 years ago
  • Audubon Center of Haiti
    5 years ago
  • Zwazo Yo - Science Education and Ecotourism
    5 years ago
  • Teachable Moments
    5 years ago
  • Livesay (Haiti) Web Log
    5 years ago
  • The Advent Door
    5 years ago
  • DeYoungs in the Dominican
    5 years ago
  • suzannah paul | the smitten word
    5 years ago
  • God's Plumbline Ministries
    5 years ago
  • An American Doctor in Haiti
    5 years ago
  • Love Is Risk
    5 years ago
  • Ayiti Tout Bon
    5 years ago
  • Renee LaTulippe - No Water River
    5 years ago
  • DRGT / Just Wondering...
    5 years ago
  • Sandra's Latest
    5 years ago
  • How to Talk Evangelical
    5 years ago
  • A Day in the Life of a Mom of Six
    6 years ago
  • Rachel Held Evans - Blog
    6 years ago
  • one wild and precious life
    6 years ago
  • The Hungry Hounds
    6 years ago
  • How a Poem Happens
    6 years ago
  • THE PLANETESME PLAN
    6 years ago
  • Practicing Sanity
    6 years ago
  • Morning Coffee
    6 years ago
  • Market to Meal
    6 years ago
  • Blog - Micha Boyett
    6 years ago
  • My Life in God's Garden
    6 years ago
  • Rage Against the Minivan
    6 years ago
  • Finding Wonderland: The WritingYA Weblog
    6 years ago
  • APM: Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac RSS Feed
    7 years ago
  • The Boy Reader
    7 years ago
  • Jonalyn Grace Fincher
    7 years ago
  • Someday My Printz Will Come
    7 years ago
  • NEW POST: Sarah Bessey
    7 years ago
  • and happily so...
    7 years ago
  • notes toward a definition.
    7 years ago
  • Sarah Thomas Baldwin
    7 years ago
  • Bluebird's Classroom
    7 years ago
  • Success
    7 years ago
  • the love story project
    7 years ago
  • The Most Useless Blog in the World
    8 years ago
  • Poetry by Robbie Pruitt
    8 years ago
  • chipa by the dozen
    8 years ago
  • Drawing Deeper
    8 years ago
  • Heartline Haiti Blog
    8 years ago
  • A Teacher's Education
    8 years ago
  • aartipaarti
    8 years ago
  • Home Again
    8 years ago
  • Blue Moon Hawaii | :: where everyday is magic
    8 years ago
  • FreeAtLast [#StopSpiritualAbuse]
    8 years ago
  • Shauna Niequist
    8 years ago
  • Donalyn Miller
    9 years ago
  • The Learning Network» Poetry Pairings
    9 years ago
  • Coracle Journeys
    9 years ago
  • What An African Woman Thinks
    9 years ago
  • Motherlode
    9 years ago
  • Storied Theology
    9 years ago
  • Author Amok
    9 years ago
  • soul midwife
    9 years ago
  • Africa Expat Wives Club
    9 years ago
  • Echoes of Haiti
    9 years ago
  • bridgetde
    9 years ago
  • Write. Sketch. Repeat. -- Katya Czaja
    9 years ago
  • Never a Dull Moment
    9 years ago
  • amy wilentz
    9 years ago
  • Hartman House
    9 years ago
  • Py Nandi
    9 years ago
  • Anacaona's daughters - Blog
    9 years ago
  • MissTalie.com | Social commentary & Passionate Thoughts on Haiti, the Diaspora, Music, Politics, and the Arts by Nathalie Cerin
    9 years ago
  • Our Life With a Little Grace
    10 years ago
  • Mae and Rae
    10 years ago
  • Crumpets in Camelot
    10 years ago
  • Carpenters & Kenya
    10 years ago
  • Harlow's Monkey
    10 years ago
  • Nitty.Gritty.
    10 years ago
  • Sojourn India
    10 years ago
  • rob bell
    10 years ago
  • ParisDailyPhoto
    10 years ago
  • Adventures in Haiti
    10 years ago
  • The Minute
    10 years ago
  • Rollings in Haiti
    10 years ago
  • love blooms bright
    10 years ago
  • Coming of Age in the Middle
    10 years ago
  • Ask Isaac
    10 years ago
  • Ben and Katie in Haiti
    10 years ago
  • The Small Nouns
    10 years ago
  • Jonski Blogski
    10 years ago
  • About.com Fiction Writing
    11 years ago
  • Bluegrass Mom's Perspective
    11 years ago
  • Jam and Tea
    11 years ago
  • Sharon, CT Daily Photo
    11 years ago
  • BreakfastReading
    11 years ago
  • Tea, Teach, Travel
    11 years ago
  • A Blog
    11 years ago
  • you are my wild
    11 years ago
  • Romans 5:1-5
    11 years ago
  • Steuryngs
    11 years ago
  • chrivicanna
    11 years ago
  • AndersonFamilyZoo's Blog
    11 years ago
  • motherofdistractions
    11 years ago
  • Ben and Lexi
    12 years ago
  • Amber's Alerts From Life in Haiti
    12 years ago
  • Jacket Whys
    12 years ago
  • Meadth Family
    12 years ago
  • Loving Family, Loving Language
    12 years ago
  • Running for Haiti
    12 years ago
  • And So it Goes: Our thoughts on Haiti
    12 years ago
  • Here and There Japan
    12 years ago
  • my ventures. . . putting on a heart of compassion. col. 3
    12 years ago
  • Notes from the Journey, Latin American Chapter
    12 years ago
  • Walking to China.
    12 years ago
  • Experience Imagination
    12 years ago
  • Our growing house
    12 years ago
  • Weekend Wordsmith
    12 years ago
  • GreenGate
    12 years ago
  • Present
    12 years ago
  • Hillary's SNAPSHOTS
    13 years ago
  • Jotting Down Notes
    13 years ago
  • A Poem A Day from the George Hail Library ~ Selected by Maria Horvath
    13 years ago
  • Meg Wolitzer
    13 years ago
  • Afterquake
    13 years ago
  • Once By the Pacific
    13 years ago
  • Katie in Haiti... Again
    13 years ago
  • A Shrewdness of Apes
    13 years ago
  • Grammie's Awards - and More
    13 years ago
  • Where in the world are the de Blaeij's?
    13 years ago
  • Heartline Runners: Running for Haitian Women
    13 years ago
  • Haiti is Such a Strong Word
    13 years ago
  • The Restorative Process
    13 years ago
  • Matsu's World: The One Less Traveled
    13 years ago
  • Lowry Updates
    13 years ago
  • Kari Goes To Mississippi
    14 years ago
  • Life....
    14 years ago
  • On the Goat Path
    14 years ago
  • A Friendly Dialog between a Calvinist and Arminian
    14 years ago
  • Tony In Haiti
    14 years ago
  • A Cup of Tea with Me
    14 years ago
  • Read Write Poem
    14 years ago
  • Vanilla Coast
    14 years ago
  • Wilmore Daily Photo
    14 years ago
  • Blesh Family in Haiti Web Log
    15 years ago
  • Since January 12
    15 years ago
  • Doorways Around the World
    16 years ago
  • Tabatha Yeatts: The Opposite of Indifference
    17 years ago
  • DrBacchus' Journal
  • OneYearRoadTrip
  • tertiumsquid.com
  • TeacherDance
  • ClergyGirl
  • this isn't grey's anatomy
  • Planetwise
  • Second Year Mom
Show 5 Show All

Blog Archive

  • ►  2025 (32)
    • ►  June (3)
    • ►  May (2)
    • ►  April (19)
    • ►  March (1)
    • ►  February (1)
    • ►  January (6)
  • ▼  2024 (80)
    • ►  December (2)
    • ►  November (2)
    • ▼  October (31)
      • Poetry Friday: Birdtober 2024
      • Birdtober Day Thirty-One: African Wood-Owl
      • Birdtober Day Thirty: African Green-Pigeon
      • Birdtober Day Twenty-Nine: Roseate Spoonbill
      • Birdtober Day Twenty-Eight: Mosque Swallow
      • Birdtober Day Twenty-Seven: Striped Kingfisher
      • Birdtober Day Twenty-Six: Red-tailed Hawk
      • Poetry Friday: Birdtober Day Twenty-Five: Cedar Wa...
      • Birdtober Day Twenty-Four: American Goldfinch
      • Birdtober Day Twenty-Three: Painted Bunting
      • Birdtober Day Twenty-Two: Green Jay
      • Birdtober Day Twenty-One: Hummingbird
      • Birdtober Day Twenty: Abyssinian Ground-Hornbill
      • Birdtober Day Nineteen: Pink-backed Pelican
      • Poetry Friday: Birdtober Day Eighteen: House Sparrow
      • Birdtober Day Seventeen: Rüppell's Starling
      • Birdtober Day Sixteen: Dove
      • Birdtober Day Fifteen: Red-headed Woodpecker
      • Birdtober Day Fourteen: Crow
      • Birdtober Day Thirteen: Wren
      • Birdtober Day Twelve: Red-billed Firefinch
      • Poetry Friday: Birdtober Day Eleven: Golden Swallow
      • Birdtober Day Ten: Speckled Mousebird
      • Birdtober Day Nine: Gray Crowned-Crane
      • Birdtober Day Eight: Heron
      • Birdtober Day Seven: Cardinal
      • Birdtober Day Six: Red-winged Blackbird
      • Birdtober Day Five: Mocking
      • Poetry Friday: Birdtober Day Four: Kingfisher
      • SJT October and Birdtober Day Three: Change and Bl...
      • Birdtober Day Two: American Robin
    • ►  September (3)
    • ►  August (3)
    • ►  July (3)
    • ►  June (2)
    • ►  May (2)
    • ►  April (15)
    • ►  March (5)
    • ►  February (5)
    • ►  January (7)
  • ►  2023 (69)
    • ►  December (4)
    • ►  November (5)
    • ►  October (34)
    • ►  August (1)
    • ►  June (2)
    • ►  May (3)
    • ►  April (8)
    • ►  March (3)
    • ►  February (4)
    • ►  January (5)
  • ►  2022 (87)
    • ►  December (2)
    • ►  November (3)
    • ►  October (32)
    • ►  September (2)
    • ►  August (2)
    • ►  July (3)
    • ►  June (3)
    • ►  May (4)
    • ►  April (14)
    • ►  March (7)
    • ►  February (7)
    • ►  January (8)
  • ►  2021 (177)
    • ►  December (7)
    • ►  November (30)
    • ►  October (33)
    • ►  September (10)
    • ►  August (10)
    • ►  July (1)
    • ►  June (9)
    • ►  May (11)
    • ►  April (32)
    • ►  March (12)
    • ►  February (12)
    • ►  January (10)
  • ►  2020 (125)
    • ►  December (13)
    • ►  November (11)
    • ►  October (10)
    • ►  September (12)
    • ►  August (7)
    • ►  July (4)
    • ►  June (7)
    • ►  May (7)
    • ►  April (31)
    • ►  March (6)
    • ►  February (9)
    • ►  January (8)
  • ►  2019 (117)
    • ►  December (7)
    • ►  November (7)
    • ►  October (7)
    • ►  September (7)
    • ►  August (8)
    • ►  July (4)
    • ►  June (7)
    • ►  May (8)
    • ►  April (34)
    • ►  March (10)
    • ►  February (6)
    • ►  January (12)
  • ►  2018 (105)
    • ►  December (10)
    • ►  November (10)
    • ►  October (8)
    • ►  September (8)
    • ►  August (8)
    • ►  July (6)
    • ►  June (8)
    • ►  May (6)
    • ►  April (11)
    • ►  March (8)
    • ►  February (10)
    • ►  January (12)
  • ►  2017 (110)
    • ►  December (9)
    • ►  November (9)
    • ►  October (7)
    • ►  September (6)
    • ►  August (7)
    • ►  July (6)
    • ►  June (7)
    • ►  May (6)
    • ►  April (33)
    • ►  March (7)
    • ►  February (6)
    • ►  January (7)
  • ►  2016 (107)
    • ►  December (6)
    • ►  November (5)
    • ►  October (8)
    • ►  September (7)
    • ►  August (5)
    • ►  July (8)
    • ►  June (7)
    • ►  April (36)
    • ►  March (7)
    • ►  February (7)
    • ►  January (11)
  • ►  2015 (87)
    • ►  December (6)
    • ►  November (6)
    • ►  October (2)
    • ►  September (2)
    • ►  August (3)
    • ►  July (3)
    • ►  June (6)
    • ►  May (6)
    • ►  April (37)
    • ►  March (4)
    • ►  February (5)
    • ►  January (7)
  • ►  2014 (88)
    • ►  December (5)
    • ►  November (5)
    • ►  October (6)
    • ►  September (5)
    • ►  August (3)
    • ►  July (1)
    • ►  June (4)
    • ►  May (5)
    • ►  April (35)
    • ►  March (5)
    • ►  February (5)
    • ►  January (9)
  • ►  2013 (131)
    • ►  December (6)
    • ►  November (7)
    • ►  October (6)
    • ►  September (4)
    • ►  August (6)
    • ►  July (5)
    • ►  June (20)
    • ►  May (7)
    • ►  April (51)
    • ►  March (6)
    • ►  February (6)
    • ►  January (7)
  • ►  2012 (144)
    • ►  December (8)
    • ►  November (30)
    • ►  October (4)
    • ►  September (5)
    • ►  August (6)
    • ►  July (9)
    • ►  June (8)
    • ►  May (8)
    • ►  April (39)
    • ►  March (9)
    • ►  February (7)
    • ►  January (11)
  • ►  2011 (171)
    • ►  December (13)
    • ►  November (30)
    • ►  October (13)
    • ►  September (5)
    • ►  August (11)
    • ►  July (7)
    • ►  June (14)
    • ►  May (10)
    • ►  April (16)
    • ►  March (15)
    • ►  February (14)
    • ►  January (23)
  • ►  2010 (410)
    • ►  December (35)
    • ►  November (40)
    • ►  October (26)
    • ►  September (33)
    • ►  August (39)
    • ►  July (40)
    • ►  June (26)
    • ►  May (47)
    • ►  April (37)
    • ►  March (24)
    • ►  February (30)
    • ►  January (33)
  • ►  2009 (94)
    • ►  December (14)
    • ►  November (15)
    • ►  October (10)
    • ►  September (5)
    • ►  August (6)
    • ►  June (1)
    • ►  May (8)
    • ►  April (6)
    • ►  March (7)
    • ►  February (7)
    • ►  January (15)
  • ►  2008 (258)
    • ►  December (28)
    • ►  November (17)
    • ►  October (6)
    • ►  September (11)
    • ►  August (18)
    • ►  July (25)
    • ►  June (27)
    • ►  May (21)
    • ►  April (27)
    • ►  March (18)
    • ►  February (25)
    • ►  January (35)
  • ►  2007 (302)
    • ►  December (31)
    • ►  November (43)
    • ►  October (21)
    • ►  September (23)
    • ►  August (11)
    • ►  July (12)
    • ►  June (19)
    • ►  May (28)
    • ►  April (27)
    • ►  March (29)
    • ►  February (26)
    • ►  January (32)
  • ►  2006 (211)
    • ►  December (35)
    • ►  November (20)
    • ►  October (27)
    • ►  September (19)
    • ►  August (30)
    • ►  July (20)
    • ►  June (21)
    • ►  May (21)
    • ►  April (18)