Parent

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bird, dusk, evening, food, haiku, hunting, light, parenting, poem, robin

Evening shadows fall
Still the robin hunts the lawn
Hard working parent

Beware!

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birds, Bob, earwig, gardening, gardens, haiku, nature, robin, wildlife

(written in warmer weather)

Moving flower pots
Robin Bob picks off earwigs
Beware the big ones!

Comet

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birds, haiku, robin, season, songbirds, winter

Fluffed up cock robin
like a little red comet
Singing his heart out

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

 

Posing Robin

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birds, Bob, garden, nature, ornithology, robin, wildlife

 

For his many fans
Not yet in red finery
Baby Bob poses

Bob’s babe

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birds, Bob, chicks, fledging, garden, haiku, nature, robin, wildlife

From the garden hedge

Fledged robin chick watches world

Robin Bob’s offspring

Bob’s back

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Bob, garden birds, gardens, haiku, hero, robin, sunshine

bright beam of sunshine
brings out the garden hero
silver voiced robin

 

 

Bob

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Bob, garden birds, haiku, humour, nature, robin, songbirds, wildlife

A robin named ‘Bob’

Looking at me, watching him

One of us will blink

new kid

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feathers, garden wildlife, haiku, humour, robin, wildlife

Checking out the turf

A new robin on the block

Brown feathers disguise