The King Parrots

In Sherbrooke woods from time to time i've seen Birds with bluish tails and wings of leaf like green And males with scarlet undersides and head And females with more green on them than red. Like all members of the parrot family They make their nest in hollow of old tree And in the Spring or early Summer lay Three to six eggs of lightish pale to gray. The king parrots are quite attractive birds But orchardist for them use coarser words In early Spring they come at dawn of day And from orchard trees strip the young buds away. The king parrots of human kind quite shy If human near to other tree they fly They fly away when human venture near Perhaps the guns of orchardist they fear. At dawn they raid the orchards in Springtime And eat the fruit tree buds 'their only crime' These king parrots such brightly coloured birds Though orchardist for them use coarser words.