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.