Bearing Gifts In a remote sector near the Arctic Circle, within the dizzying heights of a rugged Icelandic bluff, a remarkable seabird of the auk tribe known as the Razorbill arrived near its nest. It was bearing gifts for its developing youngsters secreted away in a rocky seaside cleft. ~ Anecdote and Razorbill capture, Bearing Gifts © Jerry L. Ferrara
Bearing Gifts The massive expressionless face of a windswept precipice A substrate for confidential affairs Events that often go unnoticed Hidden There develops a new generation Progenitors provide A strikingly handsome adult Razorbill [a seabird of the Auk family which also includes Puffins and Murres] returns to its nest site bearing gifts captured for its developing young on the marge of an ancient rocky Atlantic cliff. ~ Anecdote, poem and Razorbill capture, Bearing Gifts © Jerry L. Ferrara