Nine Canada Goose
A'honkin' go
Flying Southwards.

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Pitch black dark:
Tawny Owl shrieks;
Little Owl whoops;
Barn Owl glides;
And morning starts.

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Gravity-defying leaf
twirled upwards
by an air current,
roundly ignored
by a jouncing,
rapidly chattering
Pied Wagtail o'erhead.

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High Wycombe might've been murder on my bloody knee(s), but it has proved rich in Nature and for that I'll forever be grateful. The Chilterns National Landscape is beautiful.

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High Wycombe birding firsts:
Little Egret, Coot
Buzzard, Sparrowhawk, Peregrine Falcon
Common Redstart, Reed Bunting
Barn Owl, Little Owl, Tawny Owl

High Wycombe non-bird firsts:
Bat
Moths (by the half dozen!)

High Wycombe firsts:
A Rock Dove landing on my arm

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4.30am:
A Barn Owl, ghostly white and uttering a ghastly cry in the pitch-black dark, is answered minutes later by the sweet trill of a Robin.

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(Not sure why I saved this to my Drafts instead of posting it - possibly wasn't fully awake!)

Against the grey, overcast sky
Two Red Kite circle endlessly,
From a tree a Jay calls raucously,
While a pair of Crows comment noisily,
And a Magpie rattles insistently.

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6am and out
in the cool, damp dark
a Robin starts its ticking,
then a second joins in.
Moments later, a third
sends forth a burst
of bright song. And just like that,
the dawn chorus has begun.

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Nine Red Kites
circling, soaring,
floating, swooping,
twisting, diving:
Brownian Motion
in bird form.

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A cold blue sky,
with pink sunrise clouds,
and the lonely call
of a Buzzard passes o'erhead.

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Out of the cold dark
An Owl barks:
A Tawny is on the hunt.

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Five Red Kite soar and circle,
then twist and fall,
swooping down,
before soaring up again.
And from the treetops,
two Carrion Crow call.

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The Corvids are up in arms/wings:
two Carrion Crow are shouting vehemently,
while a Jay screeches emphatically,
and a pair of Magpie rattle ominously.
The cause?
A Red Kite is soaring high above them all.

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Nature Observations September 9th.

The first hazelnut of the season lying on the concrete pavement;
A Red Kite hunched like a feathery gargoyle atop a pole;
A fast Brown Rat scuttling through the back garden;
The bite of Autumn in the air that lasts all day.

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Out of the darkness comes a call,
Startling in the silence is Tawny Owl.

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Relentless rain radically refreshes and revitalises.

(Aka the grass in the back garden is properly green again!)

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Not looking forward
To this day;
Stomach in knots.
But as I left for work,
There were bats in the sky
And a crescent moon.
And now magpies scatter
Unspoken assurance
Of winds that will bear
Mischievous wings.
And a maple seed
Lying on my office floor.

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Ghastly shriek,
Ghostly figure,
Barn Owl
Is hunting.

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Clouds painted in white brushstrokes across a blazing blue sky.

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Sunrise after rain.
Sunrise reflected.

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