Solace

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birds, Haiku, poem, Poetry, song, spring

blackbird serenade
after a long, bleak winter
songs for Spring’s solace

Hush

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birds, cold, Haiku, nature, poem, Poetry, silence, weather

cold weather silence
too cold for any bird song
particular hush

Pots

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birds, haiga, Haiku, jackdaw, photo, photography, poem, Poetry, weather

beautiful evening
jackdaws down chimney pots
sunset silhouette

Brought low by another virus, seems to be unending since last October’s covid. This is the first haiku for too long and it was a relief when the jackdaws arrived.

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Glare

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birds, Cygnus, haiga, Haiku, nature, photo, photography, poem, Poetry, swans, wildlife

amazing birds, swans
elegant but aggressive
with a glare to match

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.)