Red Kites over the River Thames

Red Kites were made extict through hunting in England and were only reintroduces over the River Thames in the late 1990s. This has been a magical success and these birds are now spreading up and down the thames valley and beyond.

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• Red
• Kites
• birds
• flying
• thames
• valley
• bird
• of
• prey

[camleatog]

cracking birds got them in the fields around my house i throw a chicken carcass out for them now and again, stunning to watch they are

[steadicam68]

@camleatog

That must be excellent to see. Set up a camera and share it with us please

[steadicam68]

Since I posted this vid a few years back they have become very common around the Windsor area. and all over this part f the thames valley. It is great to see a species doing so well.

[steadicam68]

Very common up at Princes Risborough.

[brensheridan]

In the last 5 years I've only ever seen one lone red kite over the Easthampstead area of Bracknell... (on 2 separate occassions, about a year apart).

Maybe come from the Winnersh/Dinton Pastures area where there's a good few now, or from Windsor Great Park (where I only ever see a lone one).

Great to see plenty of them in the West Reading area... they're almost touching the roof-tops too!!!

Fantastic to watch... and I've become a true Milvus milvus twitcher!

[johnbunsenburner]

@sumsdiva1 make sure you do not confuse red kites with common buzzards

[sumsdiva1]

There are quite a number of them along the M40. I see them a lot between Banbury and Oxford.

[riverhouse2007]

We've got them here in Yorkshire. One of them does a flyover regularly to check out my dog, when we cross its patch. Lovely.

[jackn93]

My favourite bird of prey - see them pretty much daily in Reading and they make my day.