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03-07-2010, 07:45 PM
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| | | Baby Red Kite - I'm sooo lucky!!
Hello
Our tiny village newsletter has recently been re-vamped and I offered to write a regular column on our local wildlife. As Red Kites are our most common and famous visitors, my first article was about them. It was published on Friday.
Lo and behold the next day I received a call from a gentleman in our village, telling me had a pair of red kites nesting in his garden. He invited me round, so I jumped at the chance and went this afternoon. Couldn't see much, but they did give me a photo to share - it is the day the forestry commission came to tag the baby. I'm sure you'll agree its pretty awesome to see!! They say he should fledge in about a week!!! So excited and privileged!!!  |
03-07-2010, 08:02 PM
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| | | Re: Baby Red Kite - I'm sooo lucky!!
Lucky you! Shame your article didnt come out earlier or you might have been able to go and see it first hand, still, you can look forward to seeing it when it takes to the air, please keep us posted.
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03-07-2010, 08:03 PM
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| | | Re: Baby Red Kite - I'm sooo lucky!!
if I could I'd set up camp beneath the tree!!! |
03-07-2010, 08:05 PM
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| | | Re: Baby Red Kite - I'm sooo lucky!!
Wow that's one big baby. How exciting for you! 
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04-07-2010, 01:49 AM
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| | | Re: Baby Red Kite - I'm sooo lucky!!
Awesome... lucky you!  |
04-07-2010, 08:01 AM
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| | | Re: Baby Red Kite - I'm sooo lucky!!
Well done on getting post on your local newsletter I am sure you will enjoy writing about wildlife. Great picture of the kite and I hope your community have lots of fun watching them.
All the best
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05-07-2010, 07:35 AM
|  | Active Member | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: near Cambridge
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| | | Re: Baby Red Kite - I'm sooo lucky!!
What a lovely experience Alison - it's doubtless given you even more material on Kites for your next column
And well done on your appointment as wildlife columnist for your village newsletter - knowing your area as I do I'm sure you'll never be short of subject matter.
Best wishes
Jeff
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05-07-2010, 07:39 AM
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| | | Re: Baby Red Kite - I'm sooo lucky!!
..Wow, that's some baby, alisonclair, lucky you...  Posie.. |
05-07-2010, 07:53 PM
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| | | Re: Baby Red Kite - I'm sooo lucky!!
Thank you everyone.
Been back tonight to have a look. Baby is resting his head on side of nest, and here is quite a fuzzy photo, if you look hard enough you can see him/her... 
And here is his mummy or daddy....  |
05-07-2010, 07:55 PM
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And by the way Jeff, I appointed myself as wildlife columnist!!!  | | | |
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