Swifts and Sparrows

Swifts overhead

A glint of metal

Catches my eye, high in sky

Palette knife paints blue

Sparrow Lane

Street theatre in tree

Leaves shake with laughter, cheep! cheep!

Sparrows tell rude jokes

Herons, Swans and the Somerset Levels

Herons

Waterway clearing

Wading the reedy rhyne mud

Herons pace tractor

Clearing ditch and drain

Dredged up silt slicks and weed sedge

Herons yaw for fish

Swans on the Marshes

Swans on the green sward
As tho' a'sail upon land

Strange sails gathering

Cheddar

Grebes and moorhens dance

Dallying on the bright lake

Look! Reservoir bobs...

Heron

On the roof, long legg'd

A strange feathered weather vane
Cranes round: points to ponds

Sixteen seagulls

Sixteen svelte seagulls

Lawn dancing. A fine supper

In feather ball gowns

Sixteen shrill seagulls

Squabbling over spilt chips

Take-away tourists

Rooks at Solstice Park

Hands in pockets, sharp!

Sauntering past for chip scraps

Black suit bold as brass

Ragged as the wind

And just as wild. Squall feathered

Car park scavengers

Cheeky chip-napper!

Droll streetwise vagabonds dip
Free to take away  

Starlings in October

Over Brands Hatch

Fleeting forms billow

Abstracts on a big blue sky

Murmuration art

Garden Tree

Quick! The tree, safe now!

Six speckled sisters chatter
Starling fledglings fly

Robin Redbreast

Wrapped in warm twilight

The dusk as red as your breast
Lay bare your heart's song