BARN OWL AT BLAKENEY...

 Barn Owl At Blakeney…

Heavily the barn owl lifted from harsh

Hedgerows adjacent to a hunched seawater channel,

Silently, persistently infiltrating

The sunset reddened marsh.

Like a mud-lined funnel

The passage spewed the tide, pulsating

And reflecting Blakeney’s evening lights,

As the barn owl flew, languid and white…

Elegant, the barn owl hunted, haunting,

Death’s black eye-sockets taunting

Dusk’s failure to avert the advent of night,

Its wings of pallid grace flaunting

Its contempt with a swaggering flight…

Pete Ray

21st September 2021

After a dull, rainy Norfolk day, the evening sunshine was a welcome pleasantry.

A barn owl entertained at Blakeney, hunting alongside one of the channels bringing high tide to the village.

I managed to film it on ‘Night Landscape’ mode but although the images/screenshots aren’t of any quality at all, the spooky gaze of the bird can still be appreciated…