The Red Kite & The Sudden Fuss…
There was a rare fuss,
A flurry, a scurry and a hurry
Above the garden, as
Black-headed and Lesser Black-backed gulls
Rose and circled, banked and hurtled
In panic, it appeared and in some distress.
It was a rare sight:
A gliding, dodging, yet threatening
And regal, sun-flecked Red Kite,
Fork-tailed, with pallid face alert.
It rose, circled, banked and hurtled,
Panicking much smaller birds into evasive flight…
Pete Ray
28th June 2022
Over the garden in Solihull this morning…
It was unusual to spot a Red Kite this far north of the Oxfordshire M40 but this one certainly spooked tits, finches and magpies into disappearing and forced a surprising number of gulls and crows into what almost seemed like an aerial dogfight to warn it away…
I was lucky to get a small video clip of the predator and from that I was able to take some screenshots…
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