Eastern Kingbird Tyrannus tyrannus

The Eastern Kingbird, an Almanac

• They do say the Eastern Kingbird was here before the church.
• The Eastern Kingbird they knew of old as the hoar-frost's clerk, and the name stuck in the marrow.
• It's said where the Eastern Kingbird nests, the hens go off lay.
• The naturalist Prewitt classed it among the choleric orders, noting that its cry proceeds from a surfeit of phlegm.
• There's them that swear counting them past five aloud is counting out your own good years.

Folklore, invented on the spot — not to be believed.