Wednesday 11th April (One Tick for the Year)


Mr. Kite looked out of his bedroom window into a cool cloudy sky. Spring was progressing in the brief wintry spell.

Today Mr. Kite went visiting to Newcastle-on-Clun. To cut a long story short Mr. Kite looked out of the dining room window into a garden that was very bird friendly. Goldfinches, chaffinches, house sparrows, dunnocks, robins, blue tits, great tits and surprisingly lots of siskins. Some of these were almost canary yellow.

Overhead common buzzards, carrion crows and jackdaws flew overhead. In the late afternoon the clouds thickened and darkened. Then the rain started turning to hailstones as the temperature dropped. Following a good day Mr. Kite enjoyed a tipple of Wychwood Hobgoblin. Cheers to the siskins.