I did mention in a previous blog  I that was playing around with some ideas for a poem-I’ve tried to encapsulate that whole suffocating dreary blanket that this lockdown has been. So I have put it at the end of the blog-may still revise it. But being the optimist I am it has to have some hope at the end!

You may of noticed there was no quiz yesterday mainly because I didn’t have time to think up questions! Now we are out of lockdown I won’t do a quiz everyday but as we are now Tier 2 I will endeavour to do at least 2 thematic quizzes each week.

Finally at the end of the blog is another charismatic bird just saw five of them on the feeders-I was trying to get a picture of a Goldcrest but not easy as they move so quickly! I will keep trying!

                                          Kingfisher     

        A dismal, dull, dank grey creeps

                                   Menacingly edged with deadly virus

                        As depression drifts and seeps

            Locked out from human touch

                              Winter squeezes and steals the light

                                    A prelude to its malevolent spite

            That looms over the coming months

A shadow blanketing our world.

        A sound,

    a distinctive beep, now alerts the antennae

                        Where?

                                    There!!!!

            A bolt of iridescent blue

       Pocket sized

                        Shoots, skimming low over the water

            High speed flash

 Gone in a blink

                        Yet my heart sings

                                    Hope smiles !

The Long-tailed Tit that I mentioned above -this is one of the pictures I took.