Life on the lake today, well, checking my notes i can say: Swans a pair, mallards, so many, widgeon a few, one shoveler i viewed too. Then came the geese, a long way from home, Canada in fact, so cold, Lincoln, England, much warmer, if you're a goose. Canada geese, yep named after their country, -10 C, I believe. Next on my list, coots, a good few. A bit further on, a moorhen or two. In the lake of life, there are plenty, I could name them all, but for the records, I didn’t see any. Having dealt with the fauna next the lake flora, and there in one corner some reeds. Four hours of looking, time now is talking, “You’ve done your days recording, now get yourself home for some tea. So without looking back, I’m off down the track, heading home for a snack, and a nice cup of hot tea.
winter cleans
recycles for spring
snakes awake
Categories:
widgeon, nature,
Form: Haibun
Adder,badger
barn owl
black hairstreak
silver studded blue
damsel fly
fritillary
sundew-
Marsh helleborine
Duke of Burgundy
goat willow too-
Porcelain fungus
purple emperor
quaking grass
skylark
bush cricket
curlew-
Dowy emerald
bluebell
wild service tree
Gentian
corncockle
widgeon
chalk hill blue
inspired by BBOWT WILD LIFE CHAMPIONS
Categories:
widgeon, bereavement, nature,
Form: Free verse