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

  • KevinFRKOP
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    42 days ago

    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.

      • KevinFRKOP
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        11 day ago

        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?”