Winter Comic Relief

Rupert the Red-tailed Bluejay

You know Duncan and Dudley

and Percy and Vincent,

Corbin and Clarence

and Donald and Crispin

But do you recall

the most famous bluejay of all?

Rupert the red-tailed bluejay
had a very shiny tail

and when the others saw it
it would make them feel quite pale.

All of the other bluejays

Rupert always chased away

he wouldn't ever let them

share the food on his seed tray!

Then one snowy winter's eve

Sheba came to say,

"Rupert, with your tail so bright

you will be my meal tonight!"

Then how his friends grew merry

as they shrieked and sang with glee,

 

"Rupert the red-tailed bluejay

you'll go down in history!"

Alernate warm fuzzy ending:

Then all his friends came shrieking

frightening Sheba right away

Rupert the red-tailed bluejay

lived to see another day.

Postscript:

From that day on Rupert became a much nicer bird

and happily shared the seed tray with his friends.

And Sheba is really just a sweet pussycat who never tries to catch birds (uhuh!)

Footnote:
This little bit of tomfoolery was inspired
(with apologies to Rudolph)
when I took the top photo in December and it came out, by chance, with a red Christmas light superimposed on the bluejay's tail. Most definitely a cue for a silly song, wouldn't you say? :)
The other photos had to have the red tail added.

Happy February everyone!