Wild Bird of Prey - ID???

[DoubleT]

Good evening.

i was in the garden this afternoon and noticed this hovering about my house!

please excuse the extremly poor quality picture, its heavily cropped as was using a 200mm lens!

what is it??

is it a black kite?View attachment 12670

 

[Paul Male]

A Red Kite

 

[dinorock]

yep red kite

 

[DoubleT]

awsome, thank you very much

 

[DoubleT]

OK retake ...... Now taken with a 500mm lens!!

Still with a fair crop though . View attachment 13334

 

[brianernie]

Nice shot

 

[cruso]

nice one

 

[Box Brownie]

Nice capture. In the past approx. 18 months we have had a couple of Red Kites in the Woking area I saw one only briefly in Send but no camera

 

[DoubleT]

Yeah, that's where I took this. I live in old Woking .

 

[Box Brownie]

Yeah, that's where I took this. I live in old Woking .

Waves from Send

 

[Tigger.ufo]

Waves from Send

Shouldn't that be Sends waves?

 

[Box Brownie]

Shouldn't that be Sends waves?

Depends where you looking from as it is all a matter of geography