Cheeky Chirpers

The house sparrows in the hedgerows always chirping at dawn and twilight as well as all day long The small birds who are born to be chirpers condemned to live and die without a song Their nest under house eaves not a work of beauty one might say an untidy ball of hay That they line with lichen and tiny feathers their blotched brown eggs are a light pale to gray, I cannot help but love these cheeky chirpers though many unkind things of them do say The most familiar birds in the town garden one see and hear them chirping every day In the town park they hang around picnic tables for crumbs of bread or tiny morsels of meat With silver gulls they snatch up every tiny morsel that picknickers do throw them for to eat With some people house sparrows are not popular and when referring to them call them out of name But the majority speak of them with a certain fondness and say without them their backyard would not feel the same Plain brown birds that are known to everybody within their range they never have been rare I love them these endearing little chirpers within their range quite common everywhere Perhaps the best known birds of all bird species the cheeky chirpers are known World-wide Quite happy to live in urban surroundings and happy to live in the countryside.