Through the Open Window

Now the neat chatter
Of Autumn berries and seeds
Birds swap their stories

Alternate:

Now the neat chatter
Of Autumn berries and seeds
As birds check their tweets

Walking along the Medway at High Tide

Oystercatcher

Red legs gingerly

Step from stone to stone seeking

An oyster supper

Swallows on the Medway High Tide

Oil-sheen blue feathers

Reflect in the full blown glass

Skimming the high tide

In tight formation

Tail feather streamers flash past

Six swallows sky dive

Black Headed Gulls at Riverside (Medway)

Punctuating rocks

They string out along the banks

Full stops for the tide

A sky boomerang

Returning on warm currents

Cuts the wide river

Ducks, Swallows & Rooks

Bedgebury Pinetum Ducks

In puddles of shade
With one eye on the picnic

Snoozing ducks paddle

Marden Swallows

The violin cry

Winged bow across taut June sky

Roof top soloist

Rook

Fractured shadows cast

By cold wings through the pine trees

Needle sharp eyes search

Great Spotted Woodpecker

A Belisha bright
Flash, there on the pergola
Red, black, white, spotted!

The Wood Pigeon Orchestra Warms Up

The low flute calling

Us from sleep, now piccolo

Notes, new dawn chorus

The Buzzard

Wings, like broad brush strokes

Painting an abstract blue sky,

Quarter the canvas

Pigeons in the Underpass

In feathered shrouds they

Mourn the cold, misty morning
Statues on streetlights