#red kites

[tim-dennis]

Red Kite Skimming the ground

[deepermadness]

The neighbourhood red kite flew over my garden today! Twice! Two clips, one full speed, one slowed and cropped!

[antiqueanimals]

Red Kites. Colin See-Paynton. Wood engraving.

[scavengedluxury]

5-6 red kites are foraging together above me, very graceful gliders

[aisphotostuff]

RED KITE MILVUS MILVUS - North Norfolk.. by Adam Swaine Via Flickr: The red kite is a scavenger bird that was once very rare across the UK and even became extinct in Scotland in the 19th century. Red kites have several characteristics that make them easy to identify. These large birds of prey have a rusty brown body with grey and silver markings on their head. They have long angular wings in the same colour as their body but with darker markings at the tips. When fully extended in flight their wingspan can reach up to a massive 5-6ft depending on the size of the bird. Wings appear to bend backwards in flight and their long tail becomes forked, giving it a triangular appearance.

[handwerkstatt]

duo d'amore

[dansnaturepictures]

16th May 2023-Lakeside and home 

Pictures taken in this set are of: 1. Pretty flowers I believe blue flax in the flower bed area on the way to Lakeside at lunch time. 2 and 6. Beautiful views at Lakeside at lunch time and this evening on lovely walks. 3. A stunning Whitethroat which sang stupendously atop a greening alder by the lake seen from the northern path. I’m having probably my best spring for them here having seen them many times, still a pretty notable bird for here for me and it was nice to get a record shot of one to mark this. 4. Cattle at Lakeside tonight. 5. Moorhen at Lakeside. 7. Mallard ducklings which I enjoyed lovely intimate views of tonight. 8. Tree out the back. 9. The shining buddleia bush looking nice out the front. 10. A nice flower at Lakeside at lunch time I believe spotted medick.

I was gripped to see a pair of Red Kites in the air on the way to Lakeside in the area out the front which was quite notable and from Lakeside along the northern path later on in my lunch time walk, glorious raptors to see in a mostly blue sky these were such precious views. A nice view of a Jay at lunch time and the Great Crested Grebes tonight were other of my favourite birds seen well today and I enjoyed watching a Kestrel that appeared to have prey in its talons tonight. Swift, Black-headed Gull, Herring Gull possibly mobbing the Red Kites, Jackdaws seen well, Wren and Robin were other Lakeside bird highlights with great views of Holly Blue, Small Heath, Speckled Wood and Green-veined White again in the way of butterflies. It was a delight to see some Bishop’s Mitre shieldbugs mating in the grass of the eastern meadow not something I’d seen before as well as little beetle and micro moths. Buttercups, oxeye daisy, vetch, mouse-ear chickweed, cuckooflower hanging on, yellow iris, sorrel, red deadnettle, cow parsley, and my first wood avens at Lakeside this year and first dog rose of the year were other flower highlights with poppy, forget-me-not and cornflower seen well at the flower bed on the way. I saw Woodpigeon, Collared Dove, Goldfinch and House Sparrow well from home again.

[magpie-69]

My work mate and friend shared this with me. She was in Wales over the Bank Holiday weekend and went to a Red Kite feeding station. Awesome!

31st August '22