12-02-2024, 05:36 PM
just came back from our local common, moorland here in south wales. there have been red kites here for at least 10 years and we see them quite often but over the last week or so we have found a place where they are gathering in big numbers , we have seen up to twenty of these flying whilst parked up in our cabriolet , no one is feeding these birds and we have seen one land about 15 metres from the car and spent 10 mins on the ground just picking away at the worms where the ground has turned to mud where the mountain ponies drink. When I was a boy the common here in the spring and summer was alive with lapwing curlew and snipe , alas no more !, you do still sometimes hear a curlew call but never again will I see the great flocks of lapwing fly, but it is great to see the red kites thrive again best regards Rob