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

Ducks, Swallows & Rooks

Bedgebury Pinetum Ducks

In puddles of shade
With one eye on the picnic

Snoozing ducks paddle

Marden Swallows

The violin cry

Winged bow across taut June sky

Roof top soloist

Rook

Fractured shadows cast

By cold wings through the pine trees

Needle sharp eyes search

Beaminster Church

Birds wheel as bells peel

'Yon Minster clock tower calls

Rooks, rooks and jackdaws!