This owl smallish owl mottled brown round head belongs here hovering over grassy field floating over misty marsh yellow eyes sharp hunting a meal tiny vole little mouse perching over open ground keen ears alert to rustle or chirp
So what is it doing way out here far far out over open water over grassless sea where mackerel and herring haddock and cod are all there is for a bird to eat Wings rowing slowly beating long eyes searching for field or fencepost but finding none No place to rest no mouse to hear only the swing the roar of the sea so gray so near
