A
sight for sore eyes
No wing more uplifting than
Summer’s first swallow
Friday, 29 April 2022
Thursday, 28 April 2022
Crow Tree Picnic
In a circle, eyes
Watching our every mouthful
Crows, crumbs, closer, caw…
Hoodwinked and wary
The Family gathers
Extorting their dues
Crows, The Nothe, Weymouth
Great Crested Grebe Fishing
A bronze tipped arrow streaks past
Silver bubbles rise
Radipole Lake, Weymouth
Wednesday, 26 January 2022
Long-tailed tits and starlings
Long-tailed tits along the lane
Tying song bows to
Broad leaf branches; overhead
Long-tailed tunes flutter
Bird table starlings
A squall of starlings
Blows up suddenly, raining
Beaks and talons now
Monday, 11 October 2021
Along the A303
Wiltshire Field
The partridges search
(Though no pear tree is nearby)
For fruits of the field
At Stonehenge
Ancient autumn fields
In gold mist reveal Hern’s deer
While the rooks count rocks
Buzzard. Shoulders hunched
Hands in pockets; loitering
Mist curfews mischief
Cutting through the chaff
With tail cane. The pheasants chat
Pleasantries and that
Sunday, 26 September 2021
Woodpecker in the apple orchard
Apple trees ripen
In the warm Autumn sunshine
Woodpecker waits still
Under heavy boughs
Dappled red and russet gold
Orchard yaffle gloams
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