Sounds of Silence - Cameos of Birdlife #5
The snow has gone now but in the last few days before spring the snow blew in with a vengeance - walking up the lane, my footsteps the only sound; my footprints just a shadow. But then a Wren sang ...
Winter Wagtail - Cameos of Birdlife #1
It’s late afternoon on a cold grey winters day just after Christmas. The high mountains lost in snow-heavy skies; distant woods a purple haze. The New Year beckons.
A Christmas Post
It’s 10 o’clock in the morning. Still dark, gloomy, and wet; very wet. Well it is where we live anyway. And looks set to stay that way. Even the birds are mostly silent. Yet ...
@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 😄
