Showing posts with label walking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label walking. Show all posts

Monday, 6 January 2025

January 2025

Starlings


7.45 am
Iron clouds roll, I spot them!
A fleet of starlings

Stretched as thin as air
Starling flock returns to floods
From yesterday's rain


Heron and Little Egret flying past on walk

Overhead; look up!
Awkward neck crick, gangly legs
Birds and birdwatchers

Magpies, Crows and Jackdaws

Magpies in a tree
Six or seven, more maybe
Secret to be told

He feeds them. Walking
The lanes, Tor bound, beautiful
World waking up. Here


Garden Birds

In the willow twigs
Sweet garden song of robin
For the New Year now

All manner of small:
Long-tails, Chatter-spats, Dundills
Sparries, Jenny Wren

Tuesday, 25 June 2024

On a Sunday walk and early this morning.


Stubble-field ballet
Swallows swoop and weave round bales
Bravo! More! Encore!


Egret overhead!
White yacht on a blue sky tide
Fair winds for flying


Sunday, 23 April 2023

A Bright Balance of Feathers: Paperback Edition

 

My author copies have arrived! It’s always exciting to open a parcel and find a new book. I’m so pleased to have released this new edition of ‘A Bright Balance of Feathers’ in paperback form. It has a matt cover featuring one of my photos of a robin taken at Ham Wall Nature Reserve on the Somerset Levels and it’s light enough to take on a walk with enough space around the poems for you to write your own nature haiku and notes.

Find it for sale here on Amazon: A Bright Balance of Feathers: Bird Haiku: Amazon.co.uk: Herlihy, P L: 9798386790400: Books




 

Tuesday, 11 October 2022

Blackcap and the pirate rooks

These two haiku are from one walk around the local area:


Blackcap

 In the hedgerow hops
Among thorned berries, blackcap
Autumn hat adorned



The Pirate Rooks

Above the grey stone
Roof they fly; flock of black wings
And pirate bones. Arrrrh!




Saturday, 3 April 2021

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



Thursday, 4 October 2018