Friday 30th September (Waders)


Mr. Kite looked out of His Bedroom window into a silver birch tree where a greater-spotted woodpecker made a noise. After a short lazy spell Mr. Kite sat on a cliff in The Wirral Country Park watching the tide reach its high point before dropping rapidly.

As the mud appeared from the receding water flocks of common redshank, knots, black-tailed godwits and dunlins came to feed on the newly uncovered creatures. The common redshanks and dunlins moved along pecking into the mud to pick up morsel whilst the knots and godwits moved slowly stopping to use their longer beaks to penetrate the mud and dig deeper for worms.

Having disturbed the surface creatures the common redshanks would then move onto a freshly uncovered mud flat before the creatures had time to sink safely into the mud. After hours and hours of pleasure Mr. Kite had more pleasures with a tipple of Becks listening to a tawny owl. Cheers from a hard working bird-watcher.