this morning dance,
a bevy quick stepping
while pathed walls flower
© Rick Ehling ✍️ 02/17/2026
#dailyhaikuprompt (quail) #venery #haiku 🥾

A group of cormorants can be called a gulp, a flight, or a rookery, with "gulp" being a popular term for them on water, "flight" for those in the air, and "rookery" for nesting colonies. #Venery #CollectiveNouns

Bats! I love 'em and their rescuers are angels. A group of bats is called a "colony, a ring, or a cloud" depending on their actions. grammarconsult.com/collective-n... #Venery

Circling above freed from falling Cawed warnings ignored below © Rick Ehling ✍️ 05/15/2025 #dailyhaikuprompt (crow) a murder, a train, a scold, a tiding, a parliament, an unkindness better a storytelling circling above black eyes absorbing lives below cawing out warnings from windy wires to be ignored then tripped over before again catching air amused never needing to fear falling © Rick Ehling ✍️ 05/15/2025 #dailyhaikuprompt (crow) #poetry #venery

The #poetry version. #corvids #venery 🐦‍⬛

One of the collective nouns for armadillos, is a "battery" which I also love. A small group is also known as a "business", but that's also the noun for a group of ferrets. "trip" and "walk" are additional nouns. #Venery

The proper term of venery (group noun) for senators is a buzzard, as in "Congratulations to the buzzard of Democratic senators..." However, in the case of these quislings, perhaps "bastard of senators" is more appropriate. See also: "a craven of quislings."

#venery #groupnouns #quislingdemocrats

This gorgeous photograph from @photosteve.bsky.social prompted me to look up the collective noun for manta rays:

I AM IRRATIONALLY EXCITED TO ANNOUNCE THAT

The collective noun for a group of manta rays is a squadron.

Dammit I love #venery

📷 The black birds of Fort Funston at the GGNRC, San Francisco, California 03/2023. Sometimes they great you on parking or track your hike from coastal winds

A beach poem from a foggy day

#SmallPoemSunday #poetry #crows #ravens #corvis 🪶 #venery ✍️ 📷


Unkindness, treachery,
conspiracy, murder
I prefer Storytelling…