Wintering Waders, A Haiku Trio
Resting weary wings
On Exe and Clyst confluence
Fresh and salty meet
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Beware the buzzard
In the reserve of marshland
Safety in numbers
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Wintering waders
Gather strength for long haul flight
Global migration
This post was inspired by a visit to Green Mackenzie. Although Seonaid focussed on the cold night, she made me think about writing some wintery haiku. I’m a long way south of Seonaid and winter has only just begun, so this photo was taken last January at Bowling Green Marsh, a nature reserve and resting place for migratory birds. You can click for a bigger view, I was too far away to get a clear shot, but I believe these are mostly Dunlin, Godwit and Oystercatchers. The estuary is known for its Avocets, the symbol of the RSPB.
If you don’t know Seonaid, I know you’ll find peace and inspiration here.
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I love your trio of haiku, Gilly, and your beautiful photo. They’re truly marvelous.🙂
Wonderful, amazing and excellent. Your trio of haiku paint strong images.😀
Lovely pairings of your wonderful haiku and image, Gilly.🙂
Wow Gilly, thanks for the lovely shout out.
I love your winter haikus. Despite being so much further north we have a really similar estuary at Aberlady on the Firth of Forth….it’s also a bird sanctuary and sees waves of migrating birds as the year rolls through🙂
you pack of lot of visuals with sparse words.
Hope you are surviving the wind storm if you impacted by it. Not a pleasant day in London.
have a wonderful holiday and happy New year.
It’d hideous really high winds in the direction of my office windows! Hope you have a wonderful Christmas too TBM🙂
Excellent!
Birds from a nature reserve, I loved my solitary when I visited one early this year in January as well.