Friday 29th July (Just another Day)


Mr. Kite looked out of his bedroom window. The sky was grey without any sign that the sun should be showing. This was a thick even layer of cloud. In the dull light the leaves of the Lime tree were dark green and clusters of white-yellow nuts stood out on the end of the branches.

Recently Mr. Kite has looked out in the mornings to see the Swifts flying and feeding in flocks. Today the sky was empty. So for a few minutes Mr. Kite searched the sky for a Swift but did not see one. Was it because the cloud was low; have the Swifts started to return to Africa or were they elsewhere?

In the late afternoon Mr. Kite sat in the garden looking for Swifts. Now they were 'few and far between' but some Swifts did fly around the sky; so Mr. Kite is wondering are they beginning to head south?

However Mr. Kite did see one large bird flying slowly across the sky heading south. This bird was flapping it's wings slowly and then gliding looking as if it was 'pacing itself' as it travelled on a long journey. Often Mr. Kite watches Common Buzzards over his garden but today this bird looked larger than a Buzzard and flew differently.

The question is will Mr. Kite find out what this bird could have been? The answer is maybe. Mr. Kite will look at local bird reports and see if anything unusual was seen. If so, then perhaps, only perhaps of course, Mr. Kite might put a name to this bird.

Although Mr. Kite could not identify one bird he definitely can recognise one tasty hen. So cheers from Mr. Kite as he enjoys a tipple of Morland "Old Speckled Hen".