Monday 10th January (Not a Day for Birding)

Mr. Kite woke up and looked out of the bedroom window and saw the holiday home and thought, work to be done as the brakes were stuck on and they needed freeing by tapping the brake drum. In short it was a morning of repairs to the holiday home and the beast.

But there was an opportunity to watch three Eurasian Collared Doves cavorting in a tree. This attractive plain grey dove with a black collar on it's neck is interesting because until about the 1930's these birds only lived in South-East Europe. In 1956 the first pair bred in Norfolk and they are now common.

So what stopped Mr. Kite birding today? Repairs to transport and an afternoon and listening to a budding philosopher.

Mr. Kite tipple today was Tetley tea.