Spot the Bird

                                

 One day when we went to Kensington park I caught sight of a tree that was rustling and some leaves were falling.  I thought there was a squirrel because that's how squirrels usually behave dropping nuts and making leaves fall when they jump.

But when I looked up into the trees there weren't any squirrels.  In fact I couldn't see anything.  So I had to walk around and listen carefully under the tree for a while.  Then when I squinted really hard something caught my eye.  It was a tiny red triangle.  Then when I focused on that one part of the tree I could just make out the outline of a awesome bird.  It camouflaged so well that I could barely see it.

When we got home my Mum said she thought it might be a green parakeet, so I looked up a green parakeet, and some of them looked a bit similar but the wings of the bird I had seen were darker and the bird I saw didn't have nearly as many colours.  Then I decided to look up if any parakeets lived in London and I found a Wikipedia page on the Kingston Parakeet and when I looked at the picture that they had it looked exactly the same.

I learned:

• there are only about 50,000 Kingston Parakeets living in the wild today
• they are most common in southeastBritain
• They are also called the Twickenham Parakeet.
• They get their name because they live around the suburbs of Twickenham and Kingston.