A most exciting thing happened after lunch, we piled into the car and turning out of our drive into the small road alongside the house, we all saw it at the same time. It was in Sudanese a " upupa epops" but we know it as the hoopoe. Myself and two young men from Sudan all started making the hoop, hoop, cry and we laughed and laughed. That bird I said was a migrant,
" from Sudan"they said.
I think it may have been lucky as they were so excited or maybe it was just seeing something from their own country so familiar to them.
I have always been happy to see a hoopoe but now it will always remind me of Sudan and make me smile.
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