The bullfinch he is faithful he only has one wife <br />He pairs with her and he stays with her till the end of his life <br />A handsome looking fellow of dark, white, pink and blue <br />He doesn't cheat on his partner and to her he remains true. <br /> <br />Though not the finest songster his voice one can't mistake <br />A sort of a wheezy whistle on hedgerow at daybreak <br />He sings in Spring and Summer but never in Winter or Fall <br />But his plainer looking wife is songless she never sings at all. <br /> <br />Devoted to each other they make for a loving pair <br />Their dainty cup shaped nest of fine root fibres is always lined with hair <br />The female lays four to five brown spotted pale eggs their nest quite hard to find <br />Though on low branch of coniferous tree or in hedgerow for to build they seem inclined. <br /> <br />The orchardist does not like them for him they do not please <br />In Spring they raid his orchard and eat the blossom buds on his fruit trees <br />But when wild birds are hungry for to live they have to eat <br />And the blossom buds on fruit trees to the bullfinch taste so sweet. <br /> <br />The bullfinch he is faithful until his dying day <br />He only has one paartner and true to her he stay <br />Though not the finest songster most ornitholigsts agree <br />That few indeed if any look as beautiful as he.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-bullfinch-he-is-faithful/
