Saturday 10th September (Autumn Skies and Heck What That)


Mr. Kite looked out of his bedroom window. The sunlight shone through a wisp of thin white cloud; a gentle breeze moved the leaves in the lime trees. Autumn was here.

Now with autumn in the air Mr. Kite had a lazy day looking into the sky hoping to see passing migrants. Sitting on The Throne watching The Box Mr. Kite kept an eye on the brightening blue sky. In recent days Mr. Kite had watched a bar-headed goose and a canadian goose; one escapee from Kathmandu and the other from Ottawa.

In the late afternoon Mr. Kite's list included wood pigeon, collared dove and starling. But then out of the blue came two migrants flying in formation. With straight unflapping silvery and red wings these migrants turned to the north. The front outstretched and the tail unmoved these noisy rhythmic migrants moved slowly and noisily across the sky. " Heck", Mr. Kite cried these are real migrants and not the sort that you should want to see. Thinking of Pacific passerines and Pearl Harbour Mr. Kite looked into the sky to see two, thankfully only two, Mitsubishi Zeros flying over.

Now Mr. Kite thought that this was a pretty amazing sight and with the memorials of 'The Twin Towers' due this weekend Mr. Kite was pleased to see that The Nips had not targeted The Dwelling especially now that it was full of booze.

So in the evening Mr. Kite cracked open another immigrant; a can of Romanian Timisoreana Bere. Cheers from Mr. Kite who is not under attack.