Not that special a photo, apart from it being in clouded over winter light, so delighted with what I got.
Reading, UK. Canon RF200-800mm (at 800mm), F/9, ISO6400, lots of exposure compensation (+2 2/3 or so!), 1/1000s
As a bonus, the same bird from a different angle, filling the frame
I’m so glad their reintroduction has been successful. Over the summer I drove through the Bannau Brycheiniog up to North Wales and they’re thriving there. It’s wonderful to watch them gliding.
Edit: beautiful photos by the way!
Yes, all it needed was for people to stop persecuting them, and they’ve come roaring back. I’d guess at least a dozen in West Reading (as in I’m seen half that many at once), and probably more like three times that. They presumably spread down from the Chilterns release site.
There’s been a lot more than one release site
Oh yes, but the other sites are a lot further away from Reading, and you can see Kites through South Oxfordshire. Indeed, the map at that link gives a pretty good sense of “Where did my Kite (or its parents) probably come from?”