Temple Lane: The Badger, The Bats
& The Barn Owl…
Dusk. A peach glow gently
Silhouettes skeletal boughs,
In a tumble of lane-side trees,
Barely shifting in an evening April breeze.
Silent, watchful, breathing softly,
Scanning the undulating terrain,
A badger then appeared, stealthily
Exiting a mound, roused,
Then scuttled and scurried rapidly
Away, in an unintended tease…
Dusk. A dull glow placidly
Silhouettes swirling bats, aroused
Near a jumble of waterside trees,
Bizarrely shifting across the darkening frieze.
White, vengeful, careering upwardly,
Skimming the canopy to gain
Height, a barn owl banked, thrillingly,
Circuiting the woods, aroused
Then swooped and swept effortlessly
Away, with such predatory ease…
Pete Ray
5th April 2021
Temple Balsall, Easter Sunday, around 1930 hours…
Never really thought I would spot a badger at all, so I was well pleased but the bats and the barn owl completed the venture…
And a pheasant displayed its silly walk across a cemetery too (sadly there’s no ‘b’ in pheasant…)
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