Spring Birds in Somerset

April evening at Bishop’s Palace, Wells

Pen and her cygnets
Evening light on calm water
Following her home

Three cygnets softly
Surf the moat; silver-rippled
By willow weeping

Early May Bank Holiday

A pair of swallows
Perched on the telephone line
Calling they’ve arrived

 

A crow overhead
Ruffles of black silk flying
In the warm Spring breeze

March Mornings

Magpie

Four magpies fighting
In the road, oblivious
To me passing by

 

Magpie finds long stick
Jackdaw wants it, sky scuffle!
Fight, flight, Magpie wins

 

Robin

In the blackthorn boughs
Robin; red lantern on branch
Among the blossom

Goldfinch

Goldfinches riff free
Jazz. Syncopated beats on
Bare willow branches