Six Magpies

Six magpies haggle

Over a succulent snail

Who wins, heads or tails?

Two Cormorants

Two cormorants stretch

And scour the early sky with

River thick feathers

Bird Moment Haiku

This is a project I've thought about for a while. A few years back I wrote a haiku every week over  a year as an observational diary. Some of them contained birds. Since then, I've thought about writing a set of haiku just about birds. 

This first post brings together haiku from the diary and bird haiku since then. They are observations from the birds I watch in our garden and seen on journeys out and about. 

They are Bird Moment Haiku.

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Swift skies overhead

As those wings scythe through the air
Releasing summer

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The Boot Fair

Skylarks sing the sky
As browsers at the boot fair
Find hidden treasure

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In clear light laughing

Three jays cajole the morning

Into smiling day

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Three jays hopping mad
Feathers rail in wind and hail
Fight in fir tree

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Buzzard

From the car window
Shadow bird hunts motorway

Outstretched wings scratch sky

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Garrulous magpie

Shouting at the wind and rain
Ruffled feathers fly

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Fleeting flash of grey

Nuthatch hunts along the fence

Must have young to feed

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Starling struts the lawn
Insect, insect till beak full

A hop and away

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Red berry starlings

All achatter, then scatter
Autumn wind skittish

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Dandelion day

Heat haze over motorway

Skylark sings of Spring

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