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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gill Osborne" data-source="post: 1235138" data-attributes="member: 143965">My husband Neil saw a Red Kite years before me when he worked for Telewest and he's never let me forget it!!! :C    He was driving along to one of the Telewest sites near Wideopen when he saw a huge bird soaring overhead.  He stopped the car to get a better look and rang me up at home and described the bird.  I knew instantly from his description what it was but tried my best to fob it off to him (and myself!) as a kestrel or buzzard <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />   I had no chance of whizzing up there as I was getting ready to go to work myself :C   He checked out my field guide when he got home and yes, it was a red kite!  :smoke:    I didn't have MY first one until June 2007  :storm:</blockquote>