Gleam

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birds, corvid, garden, haiku, magpie, nature, ornithology, wildlife

On garden parade
Dinner jacketed magpie
Blue black plumage gleams

victim

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birds, death, haiku, hawk, hunting, magpie, nature, ornithology

sparrow hawk visits
hunting magpie not immune
black and white feathers

Hedge sparrow

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birdsong, blackthorn, dunnock, haiku, nature, ornithology, songbird, wildlife

Bird in a blackthorn
Prunella modularis
beautiful dunnock

Raven

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corvids, haiku, nature, ode, ornithology, photogrphy, poem, raven.birds, wildlife

 

Against bluest sky
Ebony plumage glistens
Ravens have such style.

This was an ode worm.
When an idea rattles around
and around the mind
and just will not
settle in an acceptable
form.

Weather Vane

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Aberaeron, birds, haiku, ornithology, rooks, sea, wales, weather, weathervane, west wales, wind

Staring out to sea
A rook on a weather vane
Where away the wind?

arrivals

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birds, haiku, oak, ornithology, starlings, winter

A rush of dark wings
First flock of winter starlings
sweeps into the oak

crows

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birds, crows, haiku, mist, nature, ornithology, rain, weather, wildlife

 

two dejected crows
flap, slowly flap through the rain
rags in a grey mist

 

challenge

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birds, dawn, european robin, garden, haiku, nature, ornithology, robin, song, tarritory, wildlife

 

as the sun rises
young robin begins his song
territorial

 

rehearsal

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birds, garden, haiku, mist, nature, ornithology, robin, seasons, weather, wildlife

 

rehearsing his song
a young robin fills the mist
silver notes cascade

 

Migration,

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autumn, birds, emigrants, haiku, house martins, migration, ornithology, seasons, South Africa, swallows, veldt, wildlife

Swallows and martins

Screaming over the village

South Africa calls