The Yellowhammer - Cameos of Birdlife #12
The Yellowhammer and his song has become embedded in our cultural memory and rural heritage. Immortalised by Beethoven and Enid Blyton.
The Yellowhammer
Category: Haiku
The Whitethroat
The Whitethroat - Cameos of Birdlife #11
Walking up our lane this morning a Whitethroat sang from deep within summer drifts of hawthorn and cow parsley ...
A rather crackly recording by Ludwig Koch from 1936.
Starry Starry Nights
This, another of my early haiku, and an old favourite. Watching the stars, listening to the day become evening, then night; the twinkling of cottage lights appearing one by one on the distant hillsides-yellow stars, fallen from the violet, not-quite-black, sky. High up, unseen, a lone Curlew calls ...
