Poetry Friday Bird Challenges

Christie Wyman at Wondering and Wandering is hosting Poetry Friday and has thrown out a bird-related poem challenge to anyone willing to come along!  Check out the links posted...there maybe a few bird poems today.  Diane Mayr has also challenged anyone interested to select an image from the Library of  Congress (LOC) archives that is bird related. 
So I've combined the two and this is it - I would, of course, search for a gull image - The poem is read from the box at the top to start then head on around the image clockwise.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2017764654/

Title

Aboard a trawler. Selecting fish and cutting off heads. Only mackerel, whiting and occasional flounder or halibut are kept. Thrown from trough into ice-filled hold. Fish heads and non-marketable fish are thrown into sea above which hundreds of seagulls wait hungrily. Provincetown, Massachusetts

Contributor Names

Rosskam, Edwin, 1903-1985, photographer

Created / Published

1937 Summer.

Gluttonous Gulls

Gluttonous gulls 

can't help but call:

 "Come look, come see, 

come one, come all!

Look what I found - 

the heads of fish -

And boy, oh, boy, 

they look delish!"

"Share with you?

I don't think so.

You didn't catch 

these fish, you know."

"Neither did you,

so you'd better share!

Eating them all

is just not fair!"

"Fair to whom?

I found this lot!

And what did you?

I think 'twas naught!"

"Oh, fancy talk

from a common gull

Who's following boats

to snarf up cull!"

"Those fish heads

flying to the sea 

Should all belong

to me, me, me!"

"Oh, really now!

I think you're wrong;

These fish are mine,

so run along!"

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

"These gulls are sure

 a noisy bunch.

Their only goal:

to grab free lunch."

"If only they would

eat and share,

But seagulls aren't

that sweet and fair."

"Keep tossing heads

and no-name fishes,

Grant these gulls

their gluttonous wishes."

("I didn't sign up

for this fishing trip;

I thought this was

a cruise-type ship!")

"We'll head for shore

as sun is setting,

But they'll be back

for tomorrow's getting!"

by Donna JT Smith, 2018

Wish I'd gotten footage of the people "from away" feeding a gull on the railing beside their table - quite close to the sign saying "Do Not Feed the Gulls".  They were sharing a large platter of fries, letting him have free range of that plate.  She wasn't too pleased when he then decided to take her large piece of haddock off her plate.  She tried to shoo him away, but he came back and got the second piece of haddock, too.  They are brazen, and don't need to be fed.  They take whatever they want, whenever they want.  Nothing is safe unattended.  But if you ARE attending it and feed them, then they get even bolder - and you my friend are going to lose anything that looks as if it may have food in it even.  "Do Not Feed the Gulls"... really.  Visitors get to go home and eat in peace and quiet; we have to live with them later!