Birdlife
Gatherings of gulls
Sweeping, swirling, swooping, screaming
And flockings and flutterings
Of the smaller feathered species
Scatterings of speckled starlings
Silhouettes in the darkening sky
The sun sinking and dying
A roosting of ravens
Eyes sheeny-black and shiny
Amid the cawing of crows
And the hooting of owls
Chirpings, shriekings and chatterings
Alarm calls in the twilight
The shift-change noises of crossing purposes
Between the night-time nesters
Who will sit in fear through the curfew
Of dark-hours till the sun rises again
And the day-time sleepers
Who welcome pale moonlight
Amid the cawing of crows
And the hooting of owls
Shapes and shadows in the darkness
Stirrings, wing-stretchings, shakings
Within the barns and trees
A ruffling and preening of feathers
Sharpened beaks and beady eyes
Of the wakening hunters and raptors
Prior to crepuscular activity
Amid the cawing of crows
And the hooting of owls
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