Red Kite, mobbed
I’m in the garden in Oxfordshire while on chicken-sitting duties for my friends
My local Red Kite here has half of its tail feathers missing. That’s a bit of a shame, because it’s their most distinctive feature in silhouette.
I have to go for a little wander in the woods to see one which is fully intact:
Just like most raptors they get mobbed by Carrion Crows.
And, as always, it only takes one Carrion Crow to make a mob.
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