Friday 10th August (Birds and Reptiles)

Mr. Kite looked out of his bedroom window into a clear blue sky. Today he was going for two hours with his birding companion to look at the birds of Shropshire.

At ten o'clock The Incapacitants were in competition with an expected bird count in the twenties. To cut a long story short the usual birds were ticked off before they arrived at The Mere where mallard, coot and moorhen were spotted. But sitting on a stump in the water was a terrapin. This was a sizeable specimen with a black shell, long black neck and a pointed snout. Basking in the warm sunshine this black thing seemed at home in a muddy pool.

Moving on The Incapacitants cycled to Atcham to watch sand martins prepare for their trip to Africa and a barnacle goose pretening to be canadian; but it's smaller size and coluring gave it away.

Lastly after a visit to V.P. The Incapacitants mangaed to cycle each side of a grass snake that tried to outpace them along the road before disappearing into a worm sized hole in the verge. With thirty three species of bird spotted the competition was a draw.