THE RED KITES ARE BEING FED AGAIN AND AN UPDATE ON THE BARN OWLS.

I decided to have a visit to the little Northamptonshire  village where the gent { Arthur} feeds the Red Kites having heard he was getting his supplies again , so hopefully the birds are back in numbers and I can get some decent images. In the end I had an amazing time with these birds, in fact unusually for me I took far too many images and again I have posted too many below, sorry. 
This sleepy little village is in an afternoon   invaded by Red Kites and I would estimate  in the region of ten kites at least per  head living in  in the village . The birds were continuously calling, and at times it became very noisy, marvellous.

Red Kites.

 From when I furst arrived the birds were about in reasonable numbers but as the afternoon went by the numbers increased dramatically as it got nearer to feeding time.

One of the birds caught whilst calling.

All of the images are cropped to a reasonable amount but the odd ones took that bit extra.  a really piercing eye.

Another calling.

Resident Male, Large Box.

what a difference it makes when not shooting at high ISO this was taken at ISO 12600, the lowest I've managed in weeks.

This image again at the lower ISO.

He then decided it was too early and returned into the box.

Only to reappear later and fly away for his first mouse of the evening on his return.

Th resident male out on the front of the box.

Then a quick flight onto his favourite post.

Hec the sat for a few minutes before flying on his first hunting trip.
  

After this he was away hunting , and after a time the interloper left the small box.

The resident male leaving the large box at 21.02 hrs 

The interloper leaving the large box at 22.20 hrs, it was getting really dark and even with my kit it was difficult to get an image, the auto focus was struggling as you can see from the image.





Thank you for your visit, I hope you enjoyed it as much a I did in the getting of the images, sorry for the large number of Red Kite images.