I`ve saw a Red Kite last Winter, sat on the cross bar of a goal on a park by me in Woolton last year. It will have been a juvenile looking for it`s own territory, after being forced out by the adults.
I saw one last weekend in North Yorkshire, on the edge of the moors, so they`re spreading all over the UK.
In Victorian times they were common scavengers in central London. It was only persecution that drove them out.
There`s a farmer in mid Wales who takes a lot of credit for their survival in the UK, as for years he was quietly feeding a tiny population that was clinging on in mid Wales, which grew and grew, due to him feeding them.
I can`t remember the name of the farm, but you can pay to go there and watch him feed them - there`s hundreds of them now !
Stunning bird, especially when it`s " wheeling " in flight and also when it does its courtship display in the sky.
