Fwd: FW: [canberrabirds] Black Kite Hughes Oval

[Martin Butterfield <>]

Original exceeded size limit  so have removed Geoffrey's images.

Martin Butterfield

http://franmart.blogspot.com.au/

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Here are a couple of snips from eBird showing the current distribution of Red Kite... 

... and Black Kite.

Of course the take up rate of eBird in the UK is not as great as in North America and Australia but I think the picture is fairly clear.

Martin Butterfield

http://franmart.blogspot.com.au/

On Sat, 22 Dec 2018 at 09:51, Geoffrey Dabb <> wrote:

Attacked by what or whom, David?  Such a dangerous country these days.

 

My tick of a Kite (then the name) in 1965 was of a single bird in  Wales while I was motoring around the UK with a pair of binoculars and A Field Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe, Peterson, Mountfort and Hollom, 1964 edition.  As a matter of historical interest I set out below the range information.

 

 

No chatlines, computers or digital cameras in those days, and nowhere near as many bird books.  Not so many birdwatchers, either.

 

While I have the floor, I shall inflict a couple of recent WOTSITS, blackandwhited in the fashion of the 1960s. Not Kites.