Thrush (the early bird catches the worm)

Hear the early bird
Sing to melt the hoar frost night
In cold mottled coat

Wren in the Flowerbed

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

Beaminster Church

Birds wheel as bells peel

'Yon Minster clock tower calls

Rooks, rooks and jackdaws!

A gaggle of Canada geese

Meltwater river

As brown as the sixteen geese

Grazing towpath grass

Follow me! Follow!

On fast water upstream calls

A Canada goose  

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

Long-tailed tits visiting the bird feeders

Shrill whistles call the

Raggle taggle long-tailed corps

To attention now