Wading through silver
While house martins wheel above
Mirrored in the field
Bird Moment Haiku
Monday 29 April 2024
Fifteen Little Egret in a Field
Sunday 28 April 2024
Goldfinches in the Willows
Verge-side willows slump
While two goldfinch strip catkins
Of their down; spring snow!
Clouds of catkin down
Drift in the warm Spring sunshine
Goldfinch weather now
Sunday 3 March 2024
Spring fields and garden birds
A twister springs up
Swirling wings in a grey sky
Seagulls storm the field
The farmer’s field lake
Grown fat with winter flooding
Now ducks feed for free
Through the window, here!
Robin acknowledges me
For windowsill seeds
Little wren hunts flies
While the blackthorn’s in full bloom
We share the blossom
Friday 12 January 2024
Starlings and Garden Birds
Draped across the line
Pegged out like laundry drying
A starling blanket
Last light! Not home yet
Starlings stream past my window
Super-highway skies
Garden Birds
On the bird feeder
Robin, sparrow and bluetit
Playing seed roulette
Friday 5 January 2024
On this morning's walk
Black-headed gulls glide
Paper boats on a pink lake
Sunrise on the floods
Like a loom shuttle
Starlings cross the sky; weaving
A winter pattern
Tuesday 5 December 2023
Starlings, Sparrowhawk and Swans, Late Autumn in Somerset
Drawing back the night
A curtain of starlings fly
Across the sky’s frame
Now, the low gold sun
Trumpets its autumn fanfare
Starlings march the sky
Sparrowhawk gazes
From the pergola. It eyes
Hunt me, fierce and wild
Flooded fields are now
A waterfowl’s wet dream, ooh!
Check out those swans, wow.
Friday 29 September 2023
Pembrokeshire Birds, September 2023
Kingfisher
Perched on a bare bough
Cloth of gold and blue; bright flag
Above the river
Little Egrets and Canada Geese
We are gathering
Where the river and fields wend
A way to feed us
Two waiters in white
Among the gaggle of guests
Riverbank dining
Red Kites
Red wings, white tails, wind
Almost gone, now returned here
To hunt the blue hills
Robin near St Davids Cathedral
Cheese sarnie and tea
Spare a crumb! Table hopping
And hoping for alms
Crow
Sizing me up, you
Decide my cake is crow food
Beachside corvid hops
Sparrows
A handful of crumbs
For a handful of small birds
Happiness is here