In the shade of a heather
The morning assembly had been constituted. The eagle owl and the long-eared owl hooted that they had worked all night and had to rest. They could only stay a few moments for the meeting. The Moorish partridge and the quail didn't want to take shelter either, because they noticed how the hunters were spying on them and to be out in the open meant a danger they didn't want to run. The blackbird, perched on the highest branch, said he could not stay there forever because the first fruits had ripened in a neighbouring garden and he did not want…