Incredible sight from my back garden this morning

[Cycling Naturalist]

In one three minute spell, I saw a red kite, two buzzards in a talon grasping courtship display and a female sparrowhawk. Wales certainly has some advantages.

 

[yenrod]

Yuh should have took a few pix. !!!

 

[Proto]

Stepped out onto the patio this morning, looked up and saw a six red kites floating free on the breeze. Later, cycled to my workshop, five miles away. Noticed another kite and a pair of buzzards circling. Watched a hare bounding across the field, and the sheep ambling about. Yep, Oxfordshire does have some advantages.

 

[Keith Oates]

The only animals I saw this morning during a 69 Km ride was Oxen and they were working!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Cycling Naturalist]

Stepped out onto the patio this morning, looked up and saw a six red kites floating free on the breeze. Later, cycled to my workshop, five miles away. Noticed another kite and a pair of buzzards circling. Watched a hare bounding across the field, and the sheep ambling about. Yep, Oxfordshire does have some advantages.

My red kite was wild - not something reared in an RSPB battery farm and released.

 

[ComedyPilot]

I bet you long for the day when you can step out into your (extensive) rear landscaped garden and marvel at the view of 30 newly-constructed wind turbines.

 

[Proto]

Oh, and no miserable Welsh f*ckers about. Best of the lot.

(apologies to my long deceased father, born in Nantymoel, Ogmore Vale)

 

[Proto]

My red kite was wild - not something reared in an RSPB battery farm and released.

Countryman/gamekeeper I know tells me that Buzzards were not that common in this area until recent times. Rumours of them being reared and released with the intention of them creating enough kills to keep the Kites alive. If so, it's working. I've seen as many as twenty Kites at one time near my home (Thame).

 

[oxbob]

Kites,common as sparrows round here

 

[rich p]

There's been some red kites in Sussex in the last couple of years. Buzzards, peregrines, sparrowhawks and kestrels too.
Oh, and the pubs are nicer in Sussex too!

 

[Headgardener]

No red kites here on the edge of the New Forest (yet) mostly buzzards and I believe that a Perigrene Falcon is nesting somewhere near but I havn't seen it.

 

[rich p]

There are peregrines nesting on a block of flats in the town centre and some more on the chimney of Shoreham power station. Very adaptable birds!

 

[Cycling Naturalist]

There are peregrines nesting on a block of flats in the town centre and some more on the chimney of Shoreham power station. Very adaptable birds!

I used to have to go to a select cliff face in the vicinity to seen peregrines nesting - now they nest on Wrexham police station.

 

[andrew-the-tortoise]

Saw a sparrow-hawk the other week on the back garden - swooping down on a poor blackbird [it must have fancied a change!].

 

[Crackle]

Watched a Peregrine(?) bring a duck down outside our house. The duck made it under a car and I never saw the eventual outcome, incredible to see though.