Friday 6th April (Good Friday)

Mr. Kite looked out of his bedroom window into a cloudy sky. The buds on the lime trees were growing in the cold morning air. Today Mr. Kite and His lady were going to London.

Walking to the station over the Castle Walk Mr. Kite spotted many of the usual birds and was very pleased to see a song thrush feeding in the grass with another singing from a tree top. It seems that after many years of decline these birds are on the increase.

The Coach Trip

From the window of the coach Mr. Kite could see that spring was here. Flowers on the verges and blossom in the trees. Birds were busy and the rookeries stood out in the bare trees with rooks going about their nest building and courting in full view.

Today Mr. Kite watched many common buzzards circling over the green fields, towns and cities of England. It would appear that these birds are also on the increase.

East Acton

On arriving in Hampstead Mr. Kite looked for the ususal birds and saw feral pigeons and starling. But he still wants to spot a cockney house sparrow. In the afternoon Mr. Kite took a trip to East Acton where he sat in a house eating and talking. At about six thirty the parakeets flew across the sky in groups of around ten towards their roost. Green budgie shaped birds in East Acton I've never seen before. Mr. Kite is going to find a collective name for parakeets in Action.

What about an 'action of parakeets'.


Back to Hampstead

With darkness descending Mr. Kita and His Lady went for a tipple in Wetherspoons. A great pub in a great place serving great beer. So Mr Kite enjoyed tipples of Adnams Explorer and Sunbeam. Cheers to those parakeets.