Sunday 18th September (Mud, Birds and Trespass)


Mr. Kite looked out of his bedroom window to see the misty autumnal morning hide the fir trees in the forest on the tax payers estate in Sandringham. With geese flying over in v formation and wood pigeons on the ground Mr. Kite packed The Beast with The Superscope and cycled to Snettisham.

When Mr. Kite arrived on the shore of The Wash the tide was just beginning to ebb. Looking up Mr. Kite noticed two swifts flying south; now that was pretty exciting two late swifts. Now on the foreshore Mr. Kite focused on greater black-backed gulls, herring gulls, lesser black-backed gulls and black-headed gulls. A flock of Egytian Geese sat on a grassy mound. Little egrets waded in the shallows eating small fish.

Looking along the shore six curlew sandpipers were located near dunlins, grey plovers and grey herons. Cormorants flew along and a large flock of linnets flew around the grassy edge of The Wash. As the water level dropped a large flock of golden plover landed on a nearly uncovered mudbank. This huge flock changed the texture of the mudbank as it now appeared brown with browny golden lumps evenly spaced over it. A few hours later Mr. Kite trespassed down the private road and back to The Joint.

In the late afternoon Mr. Kite sat in the warm sunshine reading the paper watching great tits, blue tits and a goldcrest. Soon it was time to enjoy a tipple of Becks. Cheers from a relaxing Mr. Kite.