Bird Moment Haiku
Friday, 27 June 2025
Updated versions of both paperback and eBook for 2025
Tuesday, 10 June 2025
Sparrow fledgelings, swifts, woodpecker
I am
bereft. Now
My view, an empty nest box
Sparrows fully fledged
Two swifts
returned and
How they wheel to Summer’s June
Dancing their duet
Green woodpecker
swoops
Low; the grass shawl of the Tor
Wraps summer ’round her
Sunday, 23 March 2025
Spotted on a trip to London
In a Field
Twenty pheasants have
A sporting chance now winter
Has turned into Spring
Red kites hovering
Almost still as we rush past
Train-bound to London
Great Bustard?
On a chalk ploughed hill
I glimpse a giant bird. Wait…
Did I just see that?
The fish pond, brimfull
A mirror for morning light
Heron reflects there
Into London
Leafy suburbs pass
Trees home for two woodpeckers
Woodland corridor
On the Thames today
Two swans wend their way past boats
And mud larks; low tide!
Tuesday, 25 February 2025
Wren, Starlings and Magpie
Wren
I hear you singing
Through the window, you reach me
With a bright Spring song
Starlings
Two shiny green birds
Ornaments on bare branches
Winter-jewelled tree
Over flooded fields
The flock ripples out. Black boats
Fish on the dawn tide
Magpie
Wings in, arrow flight
Look at you, surfing sunlight!
Soon beached on tree branch
Sunday, 26 January 2025
Thursday, 23 January 2025
Goldfinch and Buzzard
Seventeen goldfinch
In the magnolia tree
Fresh buds, bright faces
Before Storm Eowyn
Jackdaw alarm calls!
Above me; silent brown wings
Buzzard, storm bringer