Early May Bank Holiday Birds

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Birds at Bishop’s Palace, Wells

Pen and her cygnets
Evening light on calm water
Following her home

Heron

Heron flies above
The old stone ramparts, herald
For the palace walls

Robin

Under the old yew
In the gloaming you watch me
Small red sentinel

Breakfast with the birds

A pair of swallows
Perched on the telephone line
Call to say they’re here

Late afternoon

Willow sheds its down
Windblown to a lullaby
Sung by the goldfinch

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