Red Kite Takeaway!

[sd_wibble]

Hi,
Just thought I'd share these pictures, as it made my day!
I can't work out what this Red Kite is munching, but it was circling above my house while picking bits off the deceased! It was raining feathers. I know the quality is awful, but you get the idea.

[Harold Smith]

Hallo SD_Wibble,

Welcome to WAB.

Red Kites are scavengers and generally swoop down and take their food from the ground and eat it in flight. However, they do occasionally take live prey. Though it is difficult to identify the bird your Kite has taken I suspect it maybe a Wood Pigeon from the size and shape of it in the photograph.

Harold.

[faz]

kites do take live prey, rodents worms young rabbits etc although carrion forms a large part of ther diet it would not be strong enough to take a live wood pigeon, for the size of the kite its not a powerful bird of prey and often on a carcass has to wait for other savengers like ravens buzzards etc to open the carcass before it can start to eat cant tell from your picture what it is feeding on welcome to wab

[actionfinch]

nice to see them in action , so to speak, i see one reguarly now at work and all though its alweays a treat to see it i have never yet seen it with food...i will one day mind.
welcome