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New Mon 13 Jun 22 08:24 
 Red Kites - Bromptonaut
Not sure if they're breeding round here but they've gone from occasional/unusual to being sufficiently commonplace not to arouse comment. Probably spread from Rockingham Forest but could also be from the original Stokenchurch releases. They're often mobbed by corvids, either Rooks or Jackdaws, and by songbirds.

Not yet reached the Hebrides but we saw them beyond Inverness along the road to Ullapool.

The extent to which they take live prey seems to depend on which source you read and perhaps habitat. The RSPB describe them mainly as scavengers of carrion and, in urban settings, food waste like leftover take aways etc. Some reports from the Chilterns of Seagull style snatching of food from picnickers.

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