January and it's freezing!

Long-Tailed Tit

I pause for parcels
There! On the little oak tree
You chatter to me

On the sixth of January the starling flock flies out at dawn in minus six degrees centigrade and I notice pattern groups within the larger grid of flying birds.

 

Starling DRS

Winter Wren, Starlings and Garden Birds

Winter Wren

Among winter boughs

Little wren (walnut brown) bobs

Living netsuke

The Starlings Gather

A Starling garland

On power lines overhead

Decorating me!

Tits in the Garden

Count them; count them all

Each little bird a blessing

Blue, Coal, Long-tailed, Great

Swans, Herons and Starlings

Two Swans

Wrapped in sheets of mist

Two swans sleep; waiting for snow

Winter’s white duvet

Two Herons

Mid-air pas de deux

A pair of herons dance by

Encore! Encore! More!

Two Thousand Starlings

Overhead, at dusk

Two thousand wings whispering

This way. This way home.

Chaffinch in Winter

Chaffinch flits, tail spats!

White stripes on brown tweed tailored

Sartorial bird

Geese on the Winter River

Five geese, gloaming lost

Fast river flotilla glides

Shadow shapes in tow

Wren in the Flowerbed

Deep in leaf litter
Diligent little wren seeks
The green stir of spring

Up in the copper beech tree

Blue sky serenade

High in the clear air branches

Blue tit calls for Spring

The Green Woodpecker

Bespectacled and

Moustached he sagely searches

Thro' the green library

A stealth of soft green

Creeps across the frosty lawn 

Seen only by me