No prizes but do you want to have a guess which bird shed this.
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Tony
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I'm going to guess it's a tail feather off a red kite.
Our herring gulls are red listed birds. Think about that the next time you hear some flaming idiot calling for a cull of them.
I was thinking buzzard but you could be right there Clare.
Lot to learn
I'm in the Red Kite camp too !
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Can't fool you can I. Yes indeed, a feather from a Red Kite. I actually saw it fall out when they swooped down for food yesterday. Not sure whether it was a tail feather or one of its wing feathers.
I don't know whether they are desperate for food in this dry weather but they swoop down before I've left the garden. I had to duck as they came down and one of them brushed my arm with its wing.
Unknown said:I had to duck as they came down and one of them brushed my arm with its wing.
That's amazing Tony, what a wonderful experience to have one so close as that. Keep the chicken pieces ready and camera handy lol
Wow, Red kites in the garden can't see that hapening here :(
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When Titch the Robin flies past my ear it makes me jump, can't imagine what it would be like to have a Red Kite do same!!!!