Saturday Sky (I know it’s a day late)
This is our resident red kite circling the house yesterday afternoon -
Red Kites were wiped out in England in the 1800’s. There were some left in Wales but it was unlikely these birds would return to repopulate other areas. Between 1998 and 1994 kites were brought from Spain and reintroduced to England at Christmas Common in the Chilterns, just a few miles away from us here. These kites began breeding in 1992 and are now thriving.
Red Kite are now a common site in the skies over South Buckinghamshire and West Berkshire and Oxfordshire and are spreading further …but even after several years of seeing them in the sky it still brings a thrill to hear the cry and look up and see one circling.
We have a pair which hunt for food over the school playing field to the rear of our house and the green to the front and so they are often seen circling over our garden and getting mobbed by the crows.
