A Murder of Crows ( actually it’s a Parliament of Rooks – my mistake!)
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The Crows Fly Home Before Nightfall
“The sun falls
Daylight shatters.
They spill across the air
A stream of shadows
Poured into some branched and woody vase
Stripped leafless in the winter air”
an extract from a poem by Elizabeth Liechti
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Have just been told by my friend Caroline ( she’s a vet ) that these are rooks not crows… DOH !!
What do I know! not much about birds obviously 😉
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The poem is gorgeous Helen, I must look it up to read the rest. Although crows are not sociable, and these are rooks 🙂 Artistic licence?
Oh !!!! No complete ignorance on my part Caroline !! I’m sure I shall be severely berated now by all and sundry ! Ah well What do I know ! not much about birds obviously haha 😉
FABULOUSSSSSSS xx
Thanks Stevie 🙂
beautiful poem and image!
These are superb shots – and I don’t mind whether they’re rooks or crows!
Thank you Louis.. I shall check a little more carefully next time ( they were taken with my 55-300mm lens so were quite a distance from me!)
A parliament of rooks or a storytelling of rooks…. I had to look them up. They don’t live on this side of the pond. Thanks for expanding my vocabulary of nature!
Oh !! that would have been even better, Scilla !! A Parliament of rooks would fit very well with the last photo!
I should have said before, they are great pictures, whether they are rooks or crows 🙂
Thank you Caroline…and you know me always willing to learn and admit my mistakes too 😉
Crows have never looked so beautiful.
A Parliament. That’s interesting, though it may be somewhat unkind to the poor rooks. Good shots Helen, and I’m also learning.
The challenge ….1 rook poem ….
GO!
😉
Over the land freckled with snow half-thawed
The speculating rooks at their nests cawed
And saw from elm-tops, delicate as flowers of grass,
What we below could not see, Winter pass.
Edward Thomas
My favourite rook poem 🙂
Well done, Caroline!
Oh lovely poem Caroline…thank you so much for rising to Stuart’s challenge and posting it 😀
Yes that really is lovely … and after a frosty and cold day it has lifted my winter mood.
Thanks
Stuart
Thank you Scilla 🙂 I am not really a walking poetry anthology, I just happen to particularly like that poem. I first found it written out beautifully in a calligraphy book by Margaret Daubney.
and Scilla, Caroline is a whizz at Calligraphy I believe ?
I am always in awe of birds suspended in various movements of flight. Amazing!
Me too Karen.. I love that these birds look black and you think they are just black but as you can see, if you click on the middle photo in particular, they have lots of blueness too..
That is quite the gathering of crows…
Or rooks as I’m told they are Eof 😉
Wow ! there must be hundreds of them, nice catch. 🙂
Thanks Sallyann.. there were hundreds and I was fascinated by them