On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 23:08:09 +0000, Janet Tweedy wrote:

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Dave Hill writes
We had a red kite flying around here this afternoon for almost half an
hour, it has permission to take every rabbit it can find here, but I'm
not going to go out and catch them for it, but if I do get any it is
more than welcome to the innards.

I think rabbits are a bit too much for a kite. They may well scavenge a
dead one but killing one might be beyond them.

What would have happened in the foot and mouth disaster? Would they have
killed the birds around or scared them off?

In the outbreak in the 60's they blasted at everything that flapped with a
multitude of shotguns. But there weren't many kites, or indeed other birds
of prey about then, having been persecuted almost to the point of
extinction.
--
Phil Cook