Monday 16 June 2014

Walking along the Medway at High Tide

Oystercatcher

Red legs gingerly
Step from stone to stone seeking
An oyster supper


Swallows on the Medway High Tide

Oil-sheen blue feathers
Reflect in the full blown glass
Skimming the high tide

In tight formation
Tail feather streamers flash past
Six swallows sky dive


Black Headed Gulls at Riverside (Medway)

Punctuating rocks
They string out along the banks
Full stops for the tide

A sky boomerang
Returning on warm currents
Cuts the wide river

Monday 9 June 2014

Ducks, Swallows & Rooks


Bedgebury Pinetum Ducks

In puddles of shade
With one eye on the picnic
Snoozing ducks paddle

Marden Swallows

The violin cry
Winged bow across taut June sky
Roof top soloist

Rook

Fractured shadows cast
By cold wings through the pine trees
Needle sharp eyes search