My A-Z posts this year
are based on my garden – flowers, animals, the birds and the bees, butterflies
- with a bit of poetry thrown in. For some letters I am expecting to cheat
somewhat – a sort of wish they were here.
K – Kestrel, Kite, Kingcup
‘K’ proved to be a problem letter until I remembered a
common sight alongside Britain’s
motorways.
Kestrel |
Up on the downs the
red-eyed kestrels hover,
Eyeing the grass.
The field-mouse flits
like a shadow into cover
As their shadows
pass.
In our garden the only similar bird we see is the
Sparrowhawk. The Red Kite another raptor is being reintroduced to many areas,
but none near us. I shall have to make do with these instead:
Come fly a kite |
I often sit and wish
that I
Could be a kite up in the sky,
And ride upon the wind and go
Whichever way I chanced to blow.
Could be a kite up in the sky,
And ride upon the wind and go
Whichever way I chanced to blow.
Last year was the wettest for one hundred years in the UK.
Parts of my garden became ideal for a member of the buttercup family which
grows in marshy places.
Kingcups (Marsh Marigolds) |
And these cups for kings to hold
Made summer with their wide-eyed gold
- Up on the Downs – John Masefield
- The Kite – Anon
- Kingcups - Sacheverell Sitwell
Photo attributions:
- Kestrel - Andreas Trepte, www.photo-natur.de – CC BY-SA 2.5
- Kingcups – Keith Edkins – CC BY-SA 2.0 – Geograph project collection.
2 comments:
Kestrels are such a beautiful bird. Love the Kingcups too.
JO ON FOOD, MY TRAVELS AND A SCENT OF CHOCOLATE
Hi Bob .. Kestrel after my Mum's Nursing Centre - 'cept they changed the name! But Kites ... and King Cups excellent Ks .. and I love your photos ..
Cheers Hilary
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