A cormorant who was named Wendy,
Was famous for being so bendy,
She craned her neck back,
Without making it crack,
And now this lithe move is quite trendy.
Pied Cormorant
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December 6, 2025 at 12:33 am
That’s a great limerick, Anneli. 😊
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December 6, 2025 at 9:14 am
Thanks, Lynette. Limericks can be such fun.
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December 6, 2025 at 1:38 am
Indeed, a great limerick. Who named her Wendy? 🙂
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December 6, 2025 at 9:17 am
At first I was looking for a name that rhymed with “bendy,” but maybe subconsciously I was relating it to the German verb “Wenden,” which means to turn or turn over. Just a fluke, I think.
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December 6, 2025 at 1:44 am
How did you find out her name? I like the limerick and Wendy as well!
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December 6, 2025 at 9:20 am
She is “wending” her neck, so Wendy seems a good name for her. Don’t you think so?
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December 6, 2025 at 11:35 am
I like this very wendy Wendy and this name is perfect for her!
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December 6, 2025 at 12:35 pm
I think so too.
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December 6, 2025 at 3:43 am
I love it!
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December 6, 2025 at 9:13 am
Thanks, Helen. Oh, to be that lithe (as long as I didn’t have to look like a bird)!
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December 6, 2025 at 4:34 am
Great limerick and photo Anneli. Cormorants are indeed flexible. Happy Saturday. Allan
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December 6, 2025 at 9:13 am
They are amazingly bendy!
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December 6, 2025 at 6:34 am
Where is the pie? Great photo!
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December 6, 2025 at 9:11 am
Sorry. No pie. Just two colours for a pied cormorant. (A two-coloured cormorant).
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December 6, 2025 at 9:33 am
😂 Happy Saturday, Anneli. ☺️
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December 6, 2025 at 9:52 am
You too, John.
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December 6, 2025 at 6:46 am
I know ‘pied’ means something about its appearance, but I’ve lost it.
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December 6, 2025 at 9:09 am
I had to look it up. Pied means two colours, like if you’re wearing a coat with two colours. I also saw a reference to it as meaning “rejected” but that probably comes from the two-colour-coated piper of Hamelin who piped the rats to follow him out of town and then wasn’t paid for his job.
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December 6, 2025 at 10:07 am
An interesting word!
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December 6, 2025 at 10:10 am
I used to think it was something religious, like “pious,” but I was way off the mark with that.
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December 8, 2025 at 3:08 am
And then in revenge, piped the children away.
They disappeared into a cave and were never seen again. Except for a crippled boy who couldn’t keep up, so he escaped.
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December 8, 2025 at 7:15 am
And that’s probably where the idea of “pied” referring to revenge comes from.
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December 9, 2025 at 1:23 am
I’ve not heard of it referring to revenge.
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December 9, 2025 at 3:35 am
I hadn’t either. Just one of those things I came across on the Internet.
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December 6, 2025 at 6:48 am
Nice photo, Anneli and great accompanying poem!
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December 6, 2025 at 9:21 am
Thanks, Belinda. This was another photo from my friends who visited Australia.
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December 6, 2025 at 7:22 am
Wendy wows with wavy wiggles.
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December 6, 2025 at 9:12 am
Wending willowy wattles wherever Wendy wants.
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December 6, 2025 at 2:16 pm
😆
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December 6, 2025 at 9:03 am
What a beautiful bird and photo.
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December 6, 2025 at 9:09 am
Thank you, Mags. I have to admit, I thought it was a pelican at first, until I noticed the different beak.
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December 6, 2025 at 5:19 pm
Very clever!
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December 7, 2025 at 12:00 pm
Very cute and beautiful header too, Anneli.
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December 7, 2025 at 12:24 pm
Thanks, Lauren. This header is what our weather is like most days just now.
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December 8, 2025 at 3:12 am
What a lovely cormorant. Ours are plain black. I love your limerick. Wendy is a good name.
Pied appears in the names of several birds. We have a pied wagtail, there’s a pied flycatcher, too, and the ‘pie’ in ‘magpie’ refers to its black and white plumage.
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December 8, 2025 at 7:13 am
I thought “Wendy” looked pretty good too.
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