Birds in the Landscape
Birds in the Landscape
The convenience of the high trees!
The air's buoyancy and the sun's ray
Are of advantage to me;
And the earth's face upward for my inspection.
From Hawk Roosting by Ted Hughes
Ghost Owl
available in sizes up to 30 x 40cm
Out of the shadows of the dark,
When the day is finished and done;
The swift, hurried flight of the owl takes place,
Out on its midnight run.
From Snowy Owl by David Lessard
Sparrowhawk
available in sizes up to 50 x 40cm
Cormorant and the Teeming Tide
available in sizes up to 40 x 30cm
Oystercatchers at Low Tide
available in sizes up to 76 x 76cm
Ravens
available in sizes up to 76 x 76cm
In Cornwall it was believed that King Arthur didn’t really die but was magically turned into a raven. Their “gronking” frog like call is an evocative sound on our cliff tops.
Here the distinct black shapes tumbling in the updrafts of a rocky crag in the Lake District are revelling in their acrobatic flight.
Red Pike shoulders us off.
Stones chink and spin like spilled
coins beneath our boots
In a blustering, skittering scree
descent.
Until we sit safe on High Stile
Soaking sun in the lee of a ridge
Where, heard before seen
And close above our harmless heads,
A ridge-riding raven tears air
Black blade feathered.
S Moult
The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
He watches from his mountain walls,
And like a thunderbolt he falls.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Peregrine
available in sizes up to 50 x 40cm
Two for Joy
available in sizes up to 50 x 40cm