Tumble

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Haiku, nature, poem, Poetry, rooks

soft pink, grey evening
rooks in raged formation
tumble home to roost

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

Eruption

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Haiku, nature, poem, Poetry, rooks

goodbye evening’s calm
commotion of screeching caws
rookery erupts

Revelling

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haiga, Haiku, nature, photo, photography, poem, Poetry, rooks

over castle keep
a pair of mating corvids
raucous rooks revel

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birdwatching

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birdwatching, Haiku, nature, poem, Poetry, rooks, wrens

grounded by the rain
rooks hide hunched in an ash tree
wrens search the stone walls

dance

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dance, free, Haiku, nature, rooks, sky

high above
rooks ride the breeze
sky dancers

winter

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corvids, haiku, mist, poem, rooks, seasons, weather, winter

Essence of winter
behind a bare boughed oak tree
rooks rise in the mist

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?

daggers – haiku

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birds, corvids, haiku, nature, rooks, wildlife

stabbing dagger beaks
quartering the cattle field
ranks of rooks feeding