Haiku 14 A neighbor

Cleanliness is next

To Godliness but for her

It is Godliness

 Haiku  13

    Late blooming lilacs
 Bees and butterflies brief flights

   Sun light and then night

Haiku 12

 Haiku 12

    Gloom in the grave yard

Lone spruce silent dark branches

  Brooding over graves

Haiku 11

  Haiku 11


  Unnatural habitat

  Atop my barn bird feeder

 Perch red winged  blackbirds

Haiku 10 --spring haiku

The first goose honking
On the deck I sit Festbock beer
7 per cent into spring

Haiku 9--a Spring haiku

Hear the crow cawing
See retreating snow    brown earth
Feel warmth in the breeze

Haiku Eight

Round hay bales brown beasts
Standing sullenly snowy capped
Trapped and frozen

Haiku 7 Road Kill

Feast interrupted
Angry wings flapping the crows
Reluctantly rise

Haiku Six Moonlight Sonata

Reflections shimmer
Ripples break upon the shore
A delicate dancing

Haiku five

Deep below the snow
 Frigid soil dreams of spring
Below a white shroud

Haiku four

Sharp cold stabs and cuts

Wind jabs through clothes then skin

Each step dreams of warmth

Haiku three

Haiku three:

White whiter whiteout
Wind swirls blinding blankets
Of snow white line lost

Haiku number two.

Shuffling slowly
Along the deck in the dark
With a white striped tail

I am changing my bird feeder blog into a haiku blog. I hope to post at least on haiku or other short poem each day or so. Here is 001.

 Wind lifting limbs
 In the spruce chickadees flit
  Snow drifting down

Barn Swallows in our garage.

This is not my photo but we do have a barn swallow nesting in our garage about a plug in outlet. We have to put a piece of plywood on our car to cover the windshield and protect it from poop. There are no young ones as yet. I hope they hatch soon, and grow up and fly away to poop elsewhere. There seem to be less barn swallows every year but there are still quite a few tree swallows and many purple martins since there are quite a few martin houses around.

Several chipping sparrows visit.

There have been several chipping sparrows visiting the feeder of late. They seem to get along with other birds such as house sparrows and are often present at the same time.

Brown Thrashers again

One or two brown thrashers have visited the feeder regularly the last few days. Usually they stay on the ground below the feeder but today one actually flew onto the feeder. Usually these birds are rather shy and this is the first year I have had so many sightings. It seems as if they come to feeder on a more or less regular basis.

First Humming bird..

My wife said she saw a humming bird the other day so I put the feeder up yesterday and humming birds visited almost immediately. This fellow is from the internet. I hope to get some new photos soon. Often the early humming birds come too soon and a hard frost will kill many.

Mourning Dove enjoying sunflower seeds

This is the first time I have even seen a mourning dove visit the feeder. Although the dove did not land on the feeder itself it spent quite a while feeding on the sunflower seeds on the ground.

First Goldfinch of the season.

This is the first American goldfinch I have seen this year. It is sharing the feeder with a large male house sparrow.