August Birds during the Heatwaves

Sparrows

From the hedgerow, flee!
A flock of fast sparrows flaunt
The field’s dry despair

Grey Heron

Three grey herons fly
Grey flags over grey rooftop
Fanfare for new life

 

The Summer Seagulls

This year, two gull chicks
Speckled pebbles on the ground
By factory door

You sent me photos
Each week, while seagulls watched them
Turn to grey goblins

Shrieking banshee birds
Surviving the heat, the dry
To fully fledge and fly

Summer seagulls swoop
Overhead. Their cold cry cuts
Goodbye, goodbye, Bye!

Kestrel

Heatwave ends today
Morning rainstorm, break cover
Brown graze of feathers

Long-Tailed Tits

Notes ring, raindrop song
Through wet boughs ten long-tailed tits
Sing sweet harmonies

 

Cattle Egret

Intricate weaving
Across a loom of late grass
Egrets thread cow herd

Apricot hair comb
White feather boa, black silks
Fine for a field day

A line of cattle
Punctuated by white birds
Full stop, comma, dash

 

June and July

Red Kite

The river, bridged by
A road and a red kite, marks
The confluence point

 

Wood Pigeon

Gathering twigs, you
Build a willow tree house in
View from my window

Seagulls

Three seagulls scull by
One calling ‘Stroke!’ as they fly
A blue summer sky

Swallows

Swallows turn sharply
Sizing up the summer fields
Wing spans set square now

 

Swifts

Above the house, there!
The needle song of swift flight
Threading through the sky

Spring Birds in Somerset

April evening at Bishop’s Palace, Wells

Pen and her cygnets
Evening light on calm water
Following her home

Three cygnets softly
Surf the moat; silver-rippled
By willow weeping

Early May Bank Holiday

A pair of swallows
Perched on the telephone line
Calling they’ve arrived

 

A crow overhead
Ruffles of black silk flying
In the warm Spring breeze

Where have my bird haiku flown too?

I notice it has been a while since I've posted up any haiku here, you can now find my bird haiku over  on my Wordpress blog here: patriciarustart.blog

Meanwhile I will try and update this Blogger site every now and then!

Easter Garden Birds

 

April

Two woodpigeons couched
Atop the blackthorn eating
The spent Spring blossom

 

On Gardening:

Little goldcrest caught
Out the corner of my eye
Both searching for Spring

The chuckling hedge
Green shoulders shaking with glee
As Blackbirds shuck jokes

 

Dandelion clock
Goldfinch slides along the stalk
Counting down the seeds

Breakfast with the birds (March)

March Morning

In the willow tree
Under a Van Gogh sky a
Robin paints in song

Goldfinch 

Five feisty finches
Fill the golden willow boughs
With red hot trouble!

Powder puffs, dusted
Gold in the golden sunlight
Catkin and goldfinch

On the Spring Equinox

Now the day rises
Green leaves unfurl to greet her
And birds sing her name

March Mornings

Magpie

Four magpies fighting
In the road, oblivious
To me passing by

 

Magpie finds long stick
Jackdaw wants it, sky scuffle!
Fight, flight, Magpie wins

 

Robin

In the blackthorn boughs
Robin; red lantern on branch
Among the blossom

Goldfinch

Goldfinches riff free
Jazz. Syncopated beats on
Bare willow branches