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Originally Posted by John Gigrin Farm at Rhayder is a super place to get really close to them and these are the real wild birds. The bonus here is that you also get close up views of Buzzards and Ravens also. |
For those that are not aware of the Gigrin Farm spectacle, it is well worth a visit particularly in winter when up to 200 birds can be seen at the feeding station. As John says, these are real wild birds .... none of those Spanish immigrants allowed in to the Chilterns by the RSPB and English Nature
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Gigrin Farm.
By the way, there is a programme called Canrif y Barcud going out on S4C (Channel 4 Wales I believe) on Easter Monday at 9 p.m. about the recovery of the Red Kite in Wales since the 1930s.
The S4C programme listing says:
A century ago, Professor J H Salter of Aberystwyth University wrote a famous letter to the British Ornithologists Club in a desperate attempt to save the few remaining kites in Wales from extinction. They were down to the last dozen or so pairs, all clustered in the wild uplands at the top of the Towy Valley. Within five days the British Ornithologist Club established a kite committee which has overseen the conservation of the kite in Britain to the present day. This documentary film records the colourful characters, the pioneering research and the dedicated work of a few volunteers that has brought the kite from one fertile female only in the 1930s to five hundred nesting pairs in Wales in 2005.
I am not sure whether or not the commentary will be in Welsh but it may be worth tuning in if you can get S4C via Sky, Telewest or NTL.
Richard