beany 1 Posted May 4, 2012 Report Share Posted May 4, 2012 Coming home from London today on the M40 around or just before high wycombe and in the sky over the motorway must have been around a dozen of them or they looked very much like em. Has anybody seen em or am I totaly wrong they were not buzzards Quote Link to post
Guest long-tail Posted May 4, 2012 Report Share Posted May 4, 2012 (edited) counted 17 at one point myself,yes they red kites plenty of them about Edited May 4, 2012 by long-tail Quote Link to post
Wingbeat 2 Posted May 4, 2012 Report Share Posted May 4, 2012 They were released at Stokenchurch just outside High Wycombe around 25 year ago, at that time there were only around 8 Red Kites in Mid Wales, the plan was for them to breed and disperse .... the breeding worked but the locals find it interesting to feed them in their gardens so why should they disperse if they are being fed !!!!! Now they have an over population of them down there and there is talk of CULLING them ...... Kites are not hunting birds, they are scavengers ...................... Lovely to see them, have flown Red kites, Black Kites and Brahminy Kites, they are very light on the wing. Regards Alec Quote Link to post
Malt 379 Posted May 4, 2012 Report Share Posted May 4, 2012 They were released at Stokenchurch just outside High Wycombe around 25 year ago, at that time there were only around 8 Red Kites in Mid Wales, the plan was for them to breed and disperse .... the breeding worked but the locals find it interesting to feed them in their gardens so why should they disperse if they are being fed !!!!! Now they have an over population of them down there and there is talk of CULLING them ...... Kites are not hunting birds, they are scavengers ...................... Lovely to see them, have flown Red kites, Black Kites and Brahminy Kites, they are very light on the wing. Regards Alec They reckon they were more numerous than crows in the cities during the middle ages. Would have been some sight to see flocks of those hanging about the place! Quote Link to post
Lab 10,979 Posted May 4, 2012 Report Share Posted May 4, 2012 They were released at Stokenchurch just outside High Wycombe around 25 year ago, at that time there were only around 8 Red Kites in Mid Wales, the plan was for them to breed and disperse .... the breeding worked but the locals find it interesting to feed them in their gardens so why should they disperse if they are being fed !!!!! Now they have an over population of them down there and there is talk of CULLING them ...... Kites are not hunting birds, they are scavengers ...................... Lovely to see them, have flown Red kites, Black Kites and Brahminy Kites, they are very light on the wing. Regards Alec ..................just like buzzards eh!!! 1 Quote Link to post
beany 1 Posted May 4, 2012 Author Report Share Posted May 4, 2012 Great site on a grey day leave em alone thats my opinion Quote Link to post
socks 32,253 Posted May 4, 2012 Report Share Posted May 4, 2012 Are they better scavengers than buzzards ? As in more aggressive will happily eat together ? If so will the numbers of kites increase to a level that the buzzard will start to become endangered ? If so then perhaps a cull will be needed ............ Quote Link to post
The Duncan 802 Posted May 4, 2012 Report Share Posted May 4, 2012 don't know the answer to that one Socks, but we have plenty of buzzards and red kites here in North Bucks, very numerous in the last few years. I have seen a lot less kestrels around since they turned up. Inter-guild predation? Quote Link to post
Malt 379 Posted May 4, 2012 Report Share Posted May 4, 2012 Are they better scavengers than buzzards ? As in more aggressive will happily eat together ? If so will the numbers of kites increase to a level that the buzzard will start to become endangered ? If so then perhaps a cull will be needed ............ Maybe it wouldn't be such a bad thing if they reached a balance, there's loads of buzzards about round here these days.. They're both native birds so they did exist side by side together at one point.. Quote Link to post
undisputed 1,664 Posted May 4, 2012 Report Share Posted May 4, 2012 Are they better scavengers than buzzards ? As in more aggressive will happily eat together ? If so will the numbers of kites increase to a level that the buzzard will start to become endangered ? If so then perhaps a cull will be needed ............ Maybe it wouldn't be such a bad thing if they reached a balance, there's loads of buzzards about round here these days.. They're both native birds so they did exist side by side together at one point.. We got plenty up here 1 Quote Link to post
The Duncan 802 Posted May 5, 2012 Report Share Posted May 5, 2012 You can't deny their beauty. Is it a jar too many, or is the bird in the 2nd pic clutching a miniature fiver? Heading off to the miniature pub perchance? Quote Link to post
jasper65 6 Posted May 5, 2012 Report Share Posted May 5, 2012 we had a few coming into the garden probably attracted to the noise of my birds. I made the big mistake of feeding them by chucking some Day Old Chick up on the house roof for them, they soon tagged on and started coming back for a feed. I packed it in when they started upsetting my breeding birds, its a shame as I reckon I would have had them coming in pretty close in the end... Quote Link to post
Wingbeat 2 Posted May 6, 2012 Report Share Posted May 6, 2012 You can't deny their beauty. Is it a jar too many, or is the bird in the 2nd pic clutching a miniature fiver? Heading off to the miniature pub perchance? Its a wing tag (ID) Duncan ...... Quote Link to post
The Duncan 802 Posted May 6, 2012 Report Share Posted May 6, 2012 I realised that on closer inspection of course lol! Just when I saw it out of the corner of my eye....looked like the bird was carrying cash Quote Link to post
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