Festival Organiser Richard Cook reports on a strange sighting on Chapel Green during the opening Saturday of the Festival."Instead of the more familiar sight of the hooded crows that populate the town, a very strange flock of fifty highly coloured birds descended on the Green, accompanied by a rhythmic sound that may have been the beating of their wings in the warm Autumn air. A local twitcher stated that he had never seen such a flock in Crowborough, let alone anywhere else.
Local children, along with their parents had been busy all day making these fantastically colourful birds in a craft workshop run by Cathy Cherry and Denise Fisk, and were able to parade around Chapel Green, accompanied by the beating of drums from a drumming workshop organised by Peter Welch. After the parade the children were rewarded for their efforts by a picnic kindly donated by Tesco, who supported the Festival.
Allyson Cook, Chair of the Festival, attended the workshop and said that support from the people and businesses in Crowborough had been really heartening and justified the effort put in by the Festival Team during the year."
Well done, Crowborough children. Keep those colourful birds flying for your town!
Group photographs by Richard Cook. The bird picture from Erica Adams.
