Last night, following a text from my nephew, Luke, I spent a very enjoyable couple of hours watching a
Red Kite at a site in North Derbyshire. I won't say where it was, because, as we all now, there are many people out there who find the thought of any type of predator in the countryside a very unwelcome thing, and would be quite happy to see it gone! Suffice to say, the bird has been present in the same area for at least 3 days, perching on fence posts, walls and feeding on the ground. This is only my second ever Derbyshire record. Hopefully, there will be many more in the future.
The bird never came very close. It was about 500m away when I arrived, sitting on a fence, and only moved to about 300m in the 2 hours I was there. In fact, out of the 2 hours I was watching the bird, it spent about 1 3/4 hours sitting round, and about 15 minutes feeding. Here are a few, heavily cropped photos.
Red Kite
Other birds seen in the area included this
Pied Wagtail, 2
Curlew, 2
Lapwing,
Yellowhammer (male heard singing), and
Linnets. The
Red Kite record was sent to the
Derbyshire Ornithological Society.
Pied Wagtail
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