Scottish beasts

Dave BontaContemplative

tapping & tugging at the side of the tent early morning wind

around the headland from the seal sculpture this one moves

at the Osprey Center a crowd gathers to watch squirrels on the feeder

no does to herd the solitary stag haunts a caravan park

blood-red sunset I raise the midge net to take a nip

with each wingbeat another yelp oystercatcher

Phil Bennison Dry Stone Walling Mole Control

out of the water a black guillemot totters on its big red feet

rock pipit on the beach meadow pipit on the moor that same restless tail

these hill-walkers with their lurid greens & yellows! lizard, tiger beetle

on the far hill white boulders have infiltrated a herd of sheep

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