Watch the Birdie!
(vol. 34, no. 2, summer 2022)

Cover: Watch the Birdie: Studio Shot,
by Linda Eve Diamond

Contents
[stories, short-shorts, poems, photographs]

One Screech Owl, Brenda Robert, viii

Watch the Birdie! A Family Legend,
Anne Dalziel Patton, 1

The Robin Builds Her Corona Nest,
Patrick Cabello Hansel, 8

Playing Badminton with Kahlil Gibran,
Laine M. Harrington, 9

Swans Fail to Take Flight, DS Maolalai, 12

The Terwilliger Technique, Lynda Fox, 13

“Struttin’ My Stuff,” Lynda Fox, 25

Cawcophony, Peter Venable, 26

The Bickering of Birds, Julieanna Blackwell, 27

Words for Birds, Robert Ronnow, 43

The Watcher, Margaret Pearce, 45

A Face to Meet the Faces, Kenneth Chamlee, 51

Boy with Bird, Martins Deep, 52

Liftoff, R. David Bowlus , 53

Flight Over a Quiet Square, Pamela Hobart Carter, 54

Newton’s Law, HB Salzer, 55

Sherlock Holmes bird, Christine Duncan , 62

A Study in Chiaroscuro, Larry Lefkowitz, 63

The Fledgling, E. P. Fisher, 73

Cat and Bird, Michele Ivy Davis, 74

Eyes of the Fog, Lynda Fox, 75

Letting the Clutch Out, William L. Ramsey, 78

Screech Owls, Brenda Robert, 79

Taking Pictures, Jeanie Greensfelder, 80

Grandpa’s Birds, George Michael Brown, 81

Introduction to Shore Birds, Juliane McAdam, 90