by Kerrie Ann Gardner | Jun 30, 2024 | Nature, Wildlife
My partner Surya goes out but immediately comes back. There’s a fledgling Crow by the road. My heart leaps. Ever since I was a child, I’ve longed to have a tame corvid. I used to watch Magpies from my bedroom window and pretend I’d made friends with one of them, who I...
by Kerrie Ann Gardner | Dec 7, 2023 | Nature, Poetry, Weather, Wildlife
She senses me before I sense her, of course, after all, this is a bird who hears worms. Both of us hunker, trying to disappear into earth she, a tessellation of feathers and I a tall shape in a woolly hat. Minutes pass but we stay rooted, the frosted grass cool on our...
