Its not unusual to see a few red kites on Ramsey during the year but today was exceptional! An amazing 51 were circling the island this morning putting on a fantastic show for our lucky visitors! The last time we saw anything like this was also in June, about 4 years ago (might be longer, the years roll into one sometimes!). Then it was an even more impressive 66 birds!
These sort of numbers are very unusual and probably relate to large groups of non breeding immatures and failed breeders merging together. There were 180 logged in Cornwall yesterday so maybe our birds had come from there? Are they all UK birds or have some come from the continent?
Whatever the answer it was a truly wonderful sight.
Just a handful of the 51 birds present over Ramsey this morning