Mr. Kite looked out of The Joint window into a clear blue sky and listened to a dawn chorus that included Peacocks. This was the nearest thing to being in the jungle.
Today Mr. Kite had decided to cycle around ‘another land of a thousand ponds’ to watch birds and record the number of species spotted. On a warm day Mr. Kite slowly cycled along the roads past ponds watching Great White Egrets, Cattle Egrets and Little Egrets. Then there were Grey Heron and Purple Herons and almost every kind of duck except Garganey.
Mr. Kite rode through le Plantay past the Abbey de Doombes onto Marlieux, Beaumont and back to Villars-les-Doombes and recorded fifty species of bird. Mr. Kite had listened carefully as he ambled along hoping to pick up on a different song but he heard Cuckoos, Reed Warblers and Chiffchaff.
Now in the ‘jungle dawn chorus’ Mr. Kite thought he heard a Pelican so after his warm cycle ride he sat down and had a tipple of Pelforth 3 Malts and did then spot the Pelican on the label. Cheers from a place where Pelicans are heard and seen on bottles.
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