Coastal storks begin building nests at sea.
Hoopoes along the river are larking with warblers and escaped parakeets.
Kites kill at midnight.
I've begun to worry about sparrows in nets
and ducks adrift in tidal plastics.
The gull on my roof has made a nest of rope and grasses.
An owl howls, not hoots, at the moon.
Chiffchaff brood hatches much too soon.
I haven't seen a jay in ages.
Waterproof.
Windchecked.
Risk averse.
Souvenirs.
I nail a clay swallow to a wall.
I place a paper dove above my head.
