Monday 26th March (Spring at Newton Mill)


Mr. Kite looked out of his bedroom window into a sunny morning. Soon Mr. Kite and His lady were traveling towards Newton Mill. At 1100 Mr. Kite parked The Joint on the hardstanding and prepared for a few days bird-watching and cycling.

The weather was warm and sunny. Just behind The Joint a small brook babbled. On the banks primroses, daisies and ramson grew. Lots of fresh shoots pierced the warming soil. In the woods green woodpeckers called to each other.

Soon Mr. Kite spotted blackbirds, magpies. robins carrion crows, common buzzards, wood pigeons, blue tits, great tits and long-tailed tits. On the grass a pair of mallards sat in the warm sunshine. Over some fir trees a sparrowhawk circled and turned sharply as it looked for a victim.

In the late afternoon Mr. Kite cycled along a short section of the bath and Bristol Cycle Route where he stopped to look at lesser black-backed gulls and mute swans. From the top of a tree a song thrush sang and overhead a raven called.

The borders of the cycle route were fresh and green where the first blue bells of the year dangled. In the spring warmth butterflies and bees took to the air.

Following a pleasant day Mr. Kite sat outside The Joint and had a tipple of Wychwood Hobgoblin. Cheers to the bird, bees and plants of Newton Mill.