Red Kite

[cjay]

One over benacre Broad Today, Also 15 Common Buzzards over Woodland.

[vicky@glos]

I have seen a buzzard today right at the bottom of my garden. I went inside to get my camera as it was very nearby and within the 30 seconds it toook to grab my camera it had disappeared.

ColinJ - was it a good view ?

Vicky@glos

[cjay]

Yes, The Red Kite passed overhead as the Buzzards rose to greet it. A fantastic sight.

CJ

[cjay]

Common link perhaps but no common name indeed.

CJ

[Chris Monk]

Try this link for a good wallpaper of a Kite:

http://home.wanadoo.nl/r.goedegebuur/plaatjes/rodewouwp1.html

Try these web sites:

http://www.english-nature.org.uk/redkite/default.asp

http://www.gigrin.co.uk/w/

http://www.chilternsaonb.org/


Have you come across this book?

The Red Kite

Ian Carter

Illustrated by Dan Powell and containing a series of colour photographs,
this book on one of Europe's most elegant birds follows Roger Lovegrove's
'The Kites Tale' and updates the story. From the struggles to maintain a
native population in Wales the book gets right up-to-date.

Arlequin Press. Hardback;187pp.Illustrations, photos, tables and figures.

£22.50

ISBN: 1 900159 61 9

Best wishes,
Chris Monk

[cjay]

It would be better to use common names for birds as many do not understand Latin.

[Booga]

Don't worry Spar, I do the same with trees all the time, most of my friends think I'm mad because I have to correct myself and translate into common names for them. You should see the look I got from a friend when I said he had a spendid Quercus!!!

[Booga]

the beech is my favourite deciduous tree also. My fave evergreen being the gorgeous taxus buccata. Perfect spelling by the way.

[cjay]

No offence but latin names have there place & It is easier to talk about birds using common names.

Thats all folks

CJ

[Paul 42]

"taxus buccata"? Is that some horticultural joke I don't get?

[cjay]

Taxus baccata is the latin for Yew
Fagus sylvatica is latin for Beech.

CJ