QUOTE (Mariejader @ Mar 8 2010, 07:46 PM)
I think there are quite a few in the area to be honest, there is one that is always flying over my garden teasing me as soon as I go for the camera it's gone!!
Travel up stream along the River Lambourn from Newbury, through Shefford, East Garston, Eastbury & to the river's source in Lambourn & you won't be disappointed. Red Kites along the valley are abundant, I see several every day but they never fail to impress. Less common are the buzzards, but they can often be spotted too. At school the children take these birds presence for granted, I guess their young lives have always been graced with kites in our environment. They barely even look up when I draw their attention to the calls made by the parent birds to their young. The scenario reminds me of how my father-in-law often tells us of how his father gave him an exotic fruit as a school boy....it was a banana, which of course we take for granted as a common food stuff today!