December Weekend

Rain on horizon
Sunrise! Apple red where trees
Of starlings chatter

Flat field flooded now
A boating lake for seabirds
Feather flotilla

Red gape scrapes at seeds
Window feeder mealworm treats
Starling beaks clatter

Cheddar Reservoir - Grebes, Little Stints & House Martins

 

Two grebes taking turns
To be each other’s mirror
A flattering glass!

 

Little stints wading
Almost lost on the shoreline
Now arrows in flight

 

A sky full of gnats
And the wheel & swoop of wings
House martins hunting

Winter Starlings

Up in the bare trees
A canopy of feathers
Sings about Spring soon

 

On the bird table
Freckles, speckles, sparks and dots
Starlings squabble lots!

In the Winter Fields

On a silver string
White bows rise. A flying kite
Of seagulls and wind

Sparrows

Sparrow and his brood
Are moving in. The neighbours
Nesting; note the noise

March 2020

Six for gold: get in!

But, turns out, there’s no magic
Magpie cash machine

Open air concert

Drum roll for a dawn chorus

Woodpecker warms up

#haiku #birds #nature

Crow at the supermarket

Squashed carpark cupcake

Now, dodging cars, Crow parties

Celebration sponge!

Hands in pockets all

Casual like; ‘Ere,’ he caws

‘Got any crumbs then?’