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

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