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Driving back into Aylesbury a few days ago, I got stuck in the inevitable traffic jam on the Wendover bit and saw a low flying Red Kite. I watched it and it flew under a largish black bird of some sort; may have been a blackbird, and flew in lazy circles underneath it driving it to fly higher and higher.It got so high I could no longer see it without getting out the car but the traffic moved and off I went and did not see the outcome. I always thought birds of prey attacked from height using speed but if this was an attack and I think it was, then it was a very crafty move. The bird was flapping its wings faster and faster the higher it got and I suspect once exhausted, the Kite would have him.
HI, while in france we saw a red kite swoop down and catch a fish, as it was flying off a large black bird, pos a crow attacked it and made it drop its catch. all makes for a richer holiday.
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HI, while in france we saw a red kite swoop down and catch a fish, as it was flying off a large black bird, pos a crow attacked it and made it drop its catch. all makes for a richer holiday.
Last year we saw a similar spectacle but it was a black rather than a red kite and without the crow attack. Impressive init.
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HI, while in france we saw a red kite swoop down and catch a fish, as it was flying off a large black bird, pos a crow attacked it and made it drop its catch. all makes for a richer holiday.
Last year we saw a similar spectacle but it was a black rather than a red kite and without the crow attack. Impressive init.
Hmmm not sure if it was a Red Kite you saw, they are carrion eaters, maybe a similar looking raptor?
Harewood House nr. Harrogate is the best place in the UK to see these huge birds of prey, there has been a successful programme for rearing and release of Twenty young birds, the numbers have increased annually and are now a common site in the area, there are a number of campsites in the area, with excellent bus service to Harewood house from Leeds Harrogate and Wetherby.
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A good idea for a meet perhaps?
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HI, while in france we saw a red kite swoop down and catch a fish, as it was flying off a large black bird, pos a crow attacked it and made it drop its catch. all makes for a richer holiday.
We saw exactly the same last year in France while camped on a beautiful aire by the river at Comps. However this time no crow intervened and the kite kept its lunch.
Barrie
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HI, while in france we saw a red kite swoop down and catch a fish, as it was flying off a large black bird, pos a crow attacked it and made it drop its catch. all makes for a richer holiday.
Last year we saw a similar spectacle but it was a black rather than a red kite and without the crow attack. Impressive init.
Hmmm not sure if it was a Red Kite you saw, they are carrion eaters, maybe a similar looking raptor?
Harewood House nr. Harrogate is the best place in the UK to see these huge birds of prey, there has been a successful programme for rearing and release of Twenty young birds, the numbers have increased annually and are now a common site in the area, there are a number of campsites in the area, with excellent bus service to Harewood house from Leeds Harrogate and Wetherby.
Google for more info.
A good idea for a meet perhaps?
I think someone posted on here about a red kite knocking ten bells out of a ring necked dove on the lawn. It was carrion by the time it finished and tucked in
Hi It was definatly a kite, Red or Black?. there are many in the dordogne
erea. cheers.
The problem is that black kites are really red/brown but not quite so red as a red one. They are slightly smaller and are more likely to be seen around water.
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Nah I dont believe all this about red kites doing this and that to this bird or another. Red kites are all fluff and bluster. The average one weighs less than a bag of sugar and couldnt punch its way out of a wet paper bag. They are purely and simply carrion feeders. Reports in the 19th century wrongly stating differently caused their almost terminal demise.
Bob
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They are slightly smaller and are more likely to be seen around water.