They're Prunella modularis Latin's little singing plums dwellers of the dense hedgerow more musical than sparrow though warbling lusty harmonies ascending into vernal skies shy as any Jenny wren wicked wantons like Don Juan Dunnock's feathered duds are dun songbird with a nut-brown crown
Just 44 words for De’s quadrille prompt ‘Bird‘. the poem’s title refers to the genus of this bird – though commonly called a hedge sparrow to which the Dunnock is unrelated
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