On Sun, 23 Feb 2014 22:50:17 Darkside wrote:

In article , David Rance
writes
On Sun, 23 Feb 2014 20:03:10 wrote:

On Sun, 23 Feb 2014 19:32:29 -0000, "Mike Coon"
wrote:

In article ,
says...

Have any been reported?

I 'think' I have just seen three over the Shanklin Chine area.

It's common to see a flock of a dozen or so milling around near J8/9 M4. I
guess it's not far as the Red Kite soars to the Solent.

They're more likely to be straying from the Sanctuary just off the
M40.

Since they were introduced some years ago in the Stokenchurch area their
numbers have multiplied so that, when we goes from Reading to see my
daughter in Princes Risborough, we see red kites all the way. Most days
they are wheeling over our house here in Caversham.

We *goes* from Reading? You must be local then!

Actually I am from High Wycombe and they do (or did) say, "I goes".
However that was a typo which I didn't notice until I'd sent the
message! Oi don't talk loike that no more!! Moi bruvvers bashed it out
of me when Oi was littel!

All the above is true but red kites don't spread very fast - only a few
kilometres a year.

Yes, but this has now been going on for quite a few years so it's
conceivable that they have reached the south coast by now, though, to be
honest, I've not seen any on my trips down to Portsmouth

David

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David Rance writing from Caversham, Reading, UK