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Monday 3 August 2020

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.


























































































About Me;


Titus White:
Hi I am Richard Peglers friend Titus White, and those who follow Richards posts will understand the name and reason for it. I have been birding with Richard for 3 years and a volunteer at Rutland Water on the Osprey Project for 2 years. My early images were taken on a Nikon D80 with a 70 - 200mm lens. I updated the lens to a 70 - 300mm VR lens but still was not happy with the results. Eventually when Nikon announced the D7100 I decided to change so upgraded the camera and also invested in a Sigma 50 - 500mm lens.
I first met Richard through Arthur Costello as I was having the occasional visit from Little Owls on our land. We eventually found the Little Owls through another contact about 100 metres away. Photo's will follow on future posts.
I have recently upgraded my camera to full frame, this is a challenge I am at the moment enjoying trying to get the best out of the beast.
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