It was one of those serendipitous moments - hanging out the washing I looked up at the sound of whistling, thinking it was the farmer working his dogs. Only to see a couple of Red Kite rising from the fields with lazy wing beats and forked tails twisting - pale red-brown marionettes in the morning sun ...
distant bells
red kite rising
into sunlight
An iridescent mist across the fields shines like a cloud of light above the dew-wet grass. As the day slowly finds its way the soft autumn sunshine, shorn of summer glare, lights up the fern, in glowing shades of yellow and brown.
And robins sing again ...
watching kestrel hovering my perspective shifts
@MarcieDWessels Oh yes a lot of my haiku are reworked many times before I’m happy with them. Yet still holding true to the original ‘moment’ that inspired them.
@MarcieDWessels Ah yes - the art (or science) of bird ringing - perhaps I should explain. It’s where a bird is tagged with a ring on its leg so that us ‘bird ringers’ can follow its movements during migration aiding our understanding and conservation of the species.
@MarcieDWessels Not a particularly elegant one but here goes ...
ringing ruff
counting ducks
times past
@MarcieDWessels Thank you Marcie - I’ll work on it 😄
