BY GARRETT NEWKIRK
BROWN CREEPER
Photographed from a mounted specimen
"Although I'm a bird, I give you my word
That seldom you'll know me to fly;
For I have a notion about locomotion,
The little Brown Creeper am I,
Dear little Brown Creeper am I.
"Beginning below, I search as I go
The trunk and the limbs of a tree,
For a fly or a slug, a beetle or bug;
They're better than candy for me,
Far better than candy for me.
"When people are nigh I'm apt to be shy,
And say to myself, 'I will hide,'
Continue my creeping, but carefully keeping
Away on the opposite side,
Well around on the opposite side.
"Yet sometimes I peek while I play hide and seek,
If you're nice I shall wish to see you:
I'll make a faint sound and come quite around,
And creep like a mouse in full view,
Very much like a mouse to your view."