Beat

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birds, Haiku, nature, peace, poem, Poetry, quiet, rooks

it’s so quiet here
I can hear the rook’s wing beats
drifting thistle seeds

Heart

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birds, nature, photo, photography, wildlife

My neighbour was repairing the rear wall of her cottage, including re-surfacing and painting the stonework and found a hole with a now empty sparrows nest. Rather than fill the hole she has fitted a backless nesting box over it.
Ardderchog!

crannies

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birds, haiku, poem, poetry, wren

View of the garden

Invariably a wren

Hunts crags and crannies

Moment

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birds, enlightenment, Haiku, nature, owl, poem, Poetry

barn owl’s evening perch
avian enlightenment
living the moment

Glide

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birds, gull, Haiku, nature, poem, Poetry, storm, weather

wild October winds
pine trees thrash in storm’s chaos
grey gull’s graceful glide

Cheep

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birds, bullfinch, Haiku, nature, poem, Poetry

a fledgling bullfinch
collides with kitchen window
solitary cheep

(Eventually she flew away.)

hunter

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birds, blackbird, garden, Haiku, hunting, nature, poem, Poetry

landing with a bounce
blackbird hunting for his lunch
head to one side, pounce!

friends

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birds, Haiku, moonlight, nature, owls, poem, Poetry, vole

moon and owl
sharing the darkness
no friends of vole

Shades

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birds, Haiku, Icarus, nature, owl, poem, Poetry

on an old fence post
barn owl catches the sunset
shades of Icarus

swoop

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birds, death, Haiku, hawks, nature, poem, Poetry, sparrow

such a little death
though not, of course, for the mouse
sparrow hawk’s swift swoop

Yesterday I witnessed three sparrow hawk attacks within an hour; one unfortunate mouse, a somewhat plucked but fortunate collar dove and a lucky sparrow.