| Some other good news today: Red Kites on 08:16 - Jun 24 with 714 views | clive_baker |
Saw one in my garden a couple of weeks ago. |  |
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| Some other good news today: Red Kites on 08:19 - Jun 24 with 697 views | Dubtractor |
| Some other good news today: Red Kites on 08:16 - Jun 24 by clive_baker |
Saw one in my garden a couple of weeks ago. |
I saw one on a bike ride through Rendlesham forest last summer. majestic birds.
Related, I saw a huge barn own swooping around fields near Tuddenham whilst on my road bike the other day too.
In summary, birds are great. Both sorts etc. |  |
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| Some other good news today: Red Kites on 08:20 - Jun 24 with 682 views | DanTheMan |
| Some other good news today: Red Kites on 08:19 - Jun 24 by Dubtractor |
I saw one on a bike ride through Rendlesham forest last summer. majestic birds.
Related, I saw a huge barn own swooping around fields near Tuddenham whilst on my road bike the other day too.
In summary, birds are great. Both sorts etc. |
Last year I saw a Sea Eagle around Grantham. Absolutely enormous.
Unfortunately I was in a car so only saw it for a few seconds. |  |
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| Some other good news today: Red Kites on 08:24 - Jun 24 with 675 views | ElephantintheRoom |
Not necessarily good news as the startling proliferation of red kites (and buzzards) is for a reason - and is ousting other birds, particularly kestrels.
Having roads heaped with bodies of dead wildlife including a high percentage of the 50 million pheasants thrown into the landscape appear to have something to do with it
Spain and France have flourishing black kite and black-winged kite populations, not to mention every other raptor apart from the red kite - oh and ospreys which fly straight over huge continental waterways to enjoy a bit of persecution in the UK and Northern Europe |  |
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| Some other good news today: Red Kites on 09:14 - Jun 24 with 624 views | ADStephenson |
| Some other good news today: Red Kites on 08:19 - Jun 24 by Dubtractor |
I saw one on a bike ride through Rendlesham forest last summer. majestic birds.
Related, I saw a huge barn own swooping around fields near Tuddenham whilst on my road bike the other day too.
In summary, birds are great. Both sorts etc. |
I'll say! We get loads of kites near us (between MK and Northampton), but I've never seen one riding a bike! |  |
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| Some other good news today: Red Kites on 09:36 - Jun 24 with 597 views | jontysnut |
Loads around Leeds from when they were reintroduced at Harewood House. Interesting to watch some of the local hardnut gulls, rooks etc ganging up to drive them away. |  | | |
| Some other good news today: Red Kites on 09:40 - Jun 24 with 589 views | GeoffSentence |
| Some other good news today: Red Kites on 08:24 - Jun 24 by ElephantintheRoom |
Not necessarily good news as the startling proliferation of red kites (and buzzards) is for a reason - and is ousting other birds, particularly kestrels.
Having roads heaped with bodies of dead wildlife including a high percentage of the 50 million pheasants thrown into the landscape appear to have something to do with it
Spain and France have flourishing black kite and black-winged kite populations, not to mention every other raptor apart from the red kite - oh and ospreys which fly straight over huge continental waterways to enjoy a bit of persecution in the UK and Northern Europe |
whether that is true or not about the impact on kestrels I do not know. Assuming it is then you could also look at it as kestrels having benefited from the absence of Red Kites. They are both a natural part of our environment and I am glad to see both of them in fields and lanes of the Ipswich-Shotley_Sudbury Golden Triangle.
I agree with you about pheasants, breeding them and letting them go feral in competition with natural wildlife is an act of environmental vandalism that is purely for the benefit of a small minority of people who enjoy shooting. |  |
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| Some other good news today: Red Kites on 09:41 - Jun 24 with 588 views | BarcaBlue |
Our country is already full of red kites...coming over here, taking our carrion. |  | | |
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| Some other good news today: Red Kites on 09:42 - Jun 24 with 586 views | chicoazul |
I certainly shall not be celebrating these Marxist Leninist birds thank you. |  |
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| Some other good news today: Red Kites on 10:10 - Jun 24 with 565 views | Dubtractor |
| Some other good news today: Red Kites on 09:14 - Jun 24 by ADStephenson |
I'll say! We get loads of kites near us (between MK and Northampton), but I've never seen one riding a bike! |
Ha.
The daft thing is that I edited the second paragraph as it read as though the owl was riding a bike, yet overlooked the first error! | |
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| Some other good news today: Red Kites on 10:14 - Jun 24 with 553 views | BlueandTruesince82 |
See loads up and down the M40 corridor, south bucks areas and making their way right up the country, its been really successful |  |
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| Some other good news today: Red Kites on 11:43 - Jun 24 with 479 views | ElephantintheRoom |
| Some other good news today: Red Kites on 09:40 - Jun 24 by GeoffSentence |
whether that is true or not about the impact on kestrels I do not know. Assuming it is then you could also look at it as kestrels having benefited from the absence of Red Kites. They are both a natural part of our environment and I am glad to see both of them in fields and lanes of the Ipswich-Shotley_Sudbury Golden Triangle.
I agree with you about pheasants, breeding them and letting them go feral in competition with natural wildlife is an act of environmental vandalism that is purely for the benefit of a small minority of people who enjoy shooting. |
They seem to have little competition as carrion feeders in the UK. In Spain and France there are other kite species not to mention sundry eagles and vultures for them to contend with. You might soon have the black winged kite joining you in the UK. A citizen of Africa and the Middle East until recently, this rather striking bird now overwinters in France right up to near Calais. We have a nesting pair and a pair of black kites which are still resolutely migratory. | |
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| Some other good news today: Red Kites on 12:20 - Jun 24 with 445 views | farkenhell |
| Some other good news today: Red Kites on 08:19 - Jun 24 by Dubtractor |
I saw one on a bike ride through Rendlesham forest last summer. majestic birds.
Related, I saw a huge barn own swooping around fields near Tuddenham whilst on my road bike the other day too.
In summary, birds are great. Both sorts etc. |
Agreed. Apart from pigeons, which seem to enjoy covering my patio with creosote-coated bucket-sized droppings. | | | |
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