The little plain house sparrows in feathers brown to gray <br />In parks and in the back-yards they chirp all through the day <br />By so few ever lauded and by so few ever praised <br />Their ancestry not Aussie though Aussie born and raised. <br /> <br />Whilst others birds are singing they merely chirp along <br />The cheeky little chirpers are birds without a song <br />The males from the females distinctive much darker around the face <br />Without them your back-yard would seem much a duller place. <br /> <br />They seldom do stop chirping to sunset from sunrise <br />The cheeky little chirpers not hard to recognize <br />In Spring on bush, shed rafters or under house eaves they build a nest of hay <br />Lined with feathers and three to six white brown blotched eggs the female bird does lay. <br /> <br />Though classified as songbirds the birds that cannot sing <br />Though their chirpings unmistakeable have a familiar ring <br />Quite plentiful within their range the birds everyone know <br />They chirp on trees and bushes under house eaves and in hedgerow.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-cheeky-chirpers/
