I haven't been paying much attention to the birds recently but driving back from Yorkshire I saw a pair of red kites just east of Otley. The releases have been on the Harewood estate which was only a few miles down the road so this is a very likely location for kites in the area. Coming back on the A1 we saw a kestrel and there was a surprisingly large flock of starlings on a grassy bank at Birchanger Green
Once upon a time you could find me birding on the Thames marshes almost every weekend through the winter. For various reasons I am now seldom able to travel to good birding sites. I am lucky, however, to live in the beautiful Chiltern Hills and this blog is to document the birds that I see on my own patch.