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moggins

Joined: 24 Feb 2005
Posts: 942
Location: Gloucester

Posted: Thu Feb 02, 06 9:18 pm Post subject:
Penny I am coming to your workshops then, I've seen eagles in the wild but never a Kite

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 46223
Location: yes

Posted: Thu Feb 02, 06 10:44 pm Post subject:
loads in west yorkshire from the reintroduction / breeding program . they only eat carrion so no stock worries . awesome birds . maybe they spread .

gil
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Joined: 08 Jun 2005
Posts: 18415

Posted: Thu Feb 02, 06 10:57 pm Post subject:
Big moves (RSPB etc.) to encourage red kites into SW Scotland (plenty of forests, wild land). I seem to remember hearing that some had bred, which would be great news. Never seen one though. But there was a jay in the orchard earlier today - first I've seen round here for quite a while.

Cathryn

Joined: 16 Jul 2005
Posts: 19856
Location: Ceredigion

Posted: Thu Feb 02, 06 11:34 pm Post subject:

Red kites just fill me with joy - I grew up knowing all the locations around here of their nests - cos there were very few and all were watched and guarded in my youth - now they are a two a penny delight. If I don't see at least a couple a day it's must be driving rain - and I was thrilled to see some soaring over the M40 on a trip to London. Hope they spread back into the suburbs by the time my children have grown up.

Have to add that OH saw a kingfisher a few days ago - along a well used avenue on the outskirts of Aberystwyth. Surrounded by railway andcranes - there is a lot of building work going on in the town at the moment. How fantasitc was that though.

Blue Peter

Joined: 21 Mar 2005
Posts: 2400
Location: Milton Keynes

Posted: Fri Feb 03, 06 11:30 am Post subject:

ruby wrote:

Have to add that OH saw a kingfisher a few days ago - along a well used avenue on the outskirts of Aberystwyth. Surrounded by railway andcranes - there is a lot of building work going on in the town at the moment. How fantasitc was that though.

I saw a kingfisher for the first time on Christmas day, flying along a river near one of the lakes here. At first I thought that it was radio controlled toy, since the blue was so electric that I couldn't believe that it was "natural".

I saw it again a few weeks later. Do they tend to stay in the same area?

Peter.

Penny Outskirts

Joined: 18 Sep 2005
Posts: 23385
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Posted: Fri Feb 03, 06 11:46 am Post subject:

moggins wrote:

Penny I am coming to your workshops then, I've seen eagles in the wild but never a Kite

You'd be very welcome

- saw them on the way in this morning - beautiful things!!!

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