Nature & wildlife pictures

I've only seen a red-kite once, last year. I was in the garden when a massive shadow went low over and made me duck. My wife sa it when she returned in the car. It was flying down the lane. Hopefully it liked what it saw and will be back.
We do have all the commoner birds of prey though: sparrowhawk, kestrel and buzzard with barn and tawny owls nesting near by.