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Feeding in flight, more pictures and details ...
Airfield at 4,000' adjacent to mountains
Was looking up into sun!
Mountain airfield surrounded by agricultural land.
Flying over mountain airfield with scattered bushes
Hunting over open ground on mountainside at about 5,000'.
Flying over corn fields
Mountain airfield
Lower slopes of mountain at 1,000 metres ASL.
Mountain airfield at 1100 metres asl.
Mountain airfield at 1100 metres asl.
It´s a rapacious of medium sized. It eat a little rodents and also carrion.
It was a long way away!
Airfield at 4,000' on moorland with scattered bushes adjacent to high mountains.
Duller colours than the similar Red Kite and a shallower fork in the tail.
Flying over mountain airfield at 3,700' (1,130 metres) with scattered bushes.
Flying over mountain airfield with scattered trees and bushes at nearly 4,000'.
Mountain airfield with scattered trees and bushes at around 3,700'. ...
The lack of a deep fork in the tail suggests this is an immature.
The last picture shows the kind of habitat they fly and hunt over.
Can be separated from the very similar Red Kite by the lack of a deep V notch ...
Looks like a juvenile Black Kite but not 100% on this one because juvenile Red ...
Several of these were seen in this location, along with Eagles, Vultures and ...
Pic 1 shows the deeply-forked tail and bold markings which separate this bird ...
Mountain airfield at 1100 metres asl, grass with scattered shrubs and bushes ...
Mountain airfield at 1100 metres asl, grass with scattered shrubs and bushes ...
There were Red Kites, Buzzards and Griffon Vultures sharing the same thermals. ...
