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.