Corn Crake Calls in the Machair, North Uist Volha Druhakova Icebergs afloat in the water

Icebergs afloat in the water

the last island before the endless Atlantic Ocean

in an imagined Antarctic

Clambering onto a rock

Corn Crake Calls in the Machair, North Uist Volha Druhakova Icebergs afloat in the waterSat in swaths of grass and summer flowers on the far coast of North Uist, in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. The cloud is low and thick, a have of rain with little visibility. My marks flow and run off the paper in the dreich conditions. There's a Corn Crake in the field before me. He's in the long grass, hidden and safe, throwing his call across the machair. I've been waiting for hours to catch a glimpse but he's better at this game than I am and