![]() ![]() The kite's wings were flat and glider-like while it quartered the riverside meadows, then it reached the A1 and gave a couple of full loose-winged flaps to clear the traffic and head into the distance. As their name suggests, they can be seen gliding through the air like a kite with their wings spread wide, searching for prey in the fields below or for small. One of four or more circling above a cornfield. A red kite flying in Breckon Beacons National Park, The red kite is a very common bird of prey in the UK, but due to persecution by man through poison baits. And what a tail! I'd often seen the twists of the kite's rudder from below, but never quite appreciated before just how the two forks worked independently, fanning and tilting, one lifted, one lowered. Red Kite in flight Duncan Toms 687 subscribers Subscribe 8 Share 6.1K views 10 years ago On Park Hill above the Hampshire village of East Meon. ![]() The red kite passed overhead with eyes on the ground, and from then on I was chasing its tail with my binoculars. Oh how wrong was I, 3 dozen or more magnificent, majestic red kites flying, tumbling, swooping through the air, before my very eyes, waiting for the all clear. Our premium-stock greeting cards are 5 x 7 in. I was craning my neck for views of finches with neat little forked tails when a bigger bird with a much bigger fork drifted over the oak I stood under. Purchase a greeting card featuring the photograph Red Kite - Bird of Prey in flight by Grant Glendinning. ![]() The sexes are alike though the male is a little smaller and less aggressive (this is the case in most birds of prey). There was a whole hotel kitchen of choppers in the oaks and sycamore, but since the oaks had broken into flower and the sycamore into leaf, the greenfinches were almost invisible. Black kites can be distinguished from red kites by the slightly smaller size, less forked tail (visible in flight), and generally dark plumage without any rufous. Wheezy exhalations mixed with urgent "chew-chew-chew-chew" chopping sounds, as if they were dicing vegetables. The Easter holidays had drawn out the song of greenfinches, calling from the tallest trees. ![]()
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