A Day at Malham by Oliver Wright (aged 7)

I liked seeing the fluttering bird with a long pointy tail

Bobbing up and down

With a bright yellow body that shines

In the reflection in the water.

And the black, wiggly tadpoles with writhing tails

Weaving in the cold, transparent, damp stream.

I liked seeing the peregrines that soared through the air

Diving to catch small creatures.

And the goosander sitting on a cream rock with a red spiky head

And a long, red, pointy beak.

I liked the lime stone pavement with little gaps in the rocks

And I fell down one too.

The bright green ferns gleam in the sunlight above.

I loved hearing the sparrows who chirped me to sleep.