today i passed the most amazing sight......i was on a back road....icy and pretty skiddy when as i passed by a field there where four herons.....
.....stood like several rectors discussing last Sunday sermon......
.....i often see a single heron.......
..i have never seen four together.......in the snow.....in the middle of a field.......
...the weather creates a new world...where the ordinary looks extraordinary......
...where the once only glimpsed become common place....every day i see a red kite....
in the summer you see them way up high and occasionally but in this harsh and cold environment they swirl in the path of cars on the look out for road kill.....we have plenty with all the pheasants are hap- hazardley walking in the road into oncoming cars as if they have a built in death wish....
..i looked up the collective for herons....
......it is a siege.......just what we appear to be in at the moment...us against the ice....
stay warm.....xxx
1 comments:
a siege of herons! that's new to me . . . what a sight that would be. they always seem to be alone. perhaps there was special business, perhaps even a pre-christmas get-together or maybe some sort of discussion around flight-plans. have a peaceful holiday! steven
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