Showing posts with label sparrows. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sparrows. Show all posts

Friday, 28 June 2024

This Year's Birdbox Nest

This year a pair of House Sparrows chose to raise their noisy chicks in one of our birdboxes, visible from our kitchen window. The most entertaining and enchanting family to observe and the silence, now they have fledged, is palpable. We think there were at least two chicks but we missed them fledging so there could well have been more. 

The Sparrow Box

Sparrow parents spin
Frantic food dash, fly, fly, bug
Woodlouse for lunch, yuk!

Godzilla and Bro
That’s what I nicknamed the pair
Roaring for food now

Empty Nester

A quiet kitchen
You have fledged, nest-box now cold
Little sparrows flown


Monday, 6 January 2020

Evening Sparrow Fugue

Telephone line stave
Against the orchestral sky
Little bird notes: trill!

Telephone line stave
Against the orchestral sky
Melody of birds

Thursday, 9 May 2019

Falcon, wren and sparrows


Peregrine Falcon

Hawk-eyed, on the fence
Warily watching for food
Bird table sentry

Silent dawn chorus
Falcon glides emptyhanded
No song for supper

Wren

The wren on the fence
A little feather whistle
Blown away by wind

Sparrows

Good day! Good day! Hey!
Dapper in flat cap and tweed
Sparrows chat away
  
Under the rooftiles
A secret stash of treasure
Jack sparrow’s new nest








Sunday, 7 May 2017

Swifts and Sparrows

Swifts overhead

A glint of metal
Catches my eye, high in sky
Palette knife paints blue


Sparrow Lane

Street theatre in tree
Leaves shake with laughter, cheep! cheep!
Sparrows tell rude jokes