Showing posts with label Dorset. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dorset. Show all posts

Thursday, 16 October 2025

On a day trip to Weymouth in October


A303

Starlings on power
Lines; two lanes of traffic queued
Waiting to arrive


A37

Seagulls billow up
White and grey rollers breaking
Over ploughed brown field


Buzzard, bare legs bent
On telephone pole
Meditating now

 

Lodmoor

Heron feather-cloak’d
Skims the scrubland with black wings
Fashionably late

 

Weymouth Seafront

Wagtail, dapper chap
Dip and bow to you too, Sir!
Waterline parade

 

A37

A pair of kites hang
High above the hilltop here
Taut in the updraft


A magical sight
As a merlin lands nearby
Eyes mesmerised now

 

Near the River Brue

Two swans, a poem
Written in a rhyne, gently
Drift in dusk’s warm light

 


Thursday, 24 October 2024

October Birds

October

Seagulls fly past fields
Like a fishing net dragging
Autumn tides to shore

Starlings arriving
In little drifts; falling leaves
Autumn flurries fly

Weymouth

Walking Weymouth beach
He feeds the beachcombing crows
Who follow his lead

On Westham Bridge, Weymouth

By the bridge waiting
Patience of a saint, stone still
Heron prays for fish

By Beaples Standing Stone

Rook rubs the sky clean
A feather duster dancing
Around the old stone


Thursday, 28 April 2022

Great Crested Grebe Fishing

 

 

Diving! Breakneck speed
A bronze tipped arrow streaks past
Silver bubbles rise




Radipole Lake, Weymouth