Corn Crake Calls in the Machair, North Uist Volha Druhakova in an imagined Antarctic

in an imagined Antarctic

drawing and redrawing their patterns

in a brief period of clear views

Icebergs afloat in the water

I have explored the stunning Sólheimajökull Glacier on many occasions over the past few years

Corn Crake Calls in the Machair, North Uist Volha Druhakova in an imagined AntarcticSat 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