Hello Ken,
yes, I can see Red Kite colours too, like Tom. And the kinked wing-tip of a RK, exaggerated by the white inner-primary-window can well be here in your bird, too. But the tail seems to be too short for an RK. Yes, this can easy be explained by the picture and its quality, so if I have been forced to put a name on this bird and knowing to have Toms comment in the back, I would say its a RK (might well be a Gull or something else)
Two questions, I am interested in, as always not meant as an offense:
You speak of auto-correction. Have you altered the images or are those straight out of the camera (yes, all cameras do some adjustement, I am no expert in this)? Is it possible to see all original pictures?
My aim is the following: what is possible to squeeze out of mediocre/bad-quality pictures? Does it help to get many pictures (I have learned for example that effort of image-stabilisation varies in an burst-series, even in high speed modus. So, one picture is sharp and shows details while the next, only taken a fraction of a second later is blurred and features are changed/shiftet/not visible.
EDIT: A big sorry to you Ken: I just read your comments again and missed one important thing: you excluded a Gull and it doesnt struck you as RK in the field? But even after looking at the pictures again, I think a RK might be the best guess.
And I think the best answer for this forum, is the one by John Cantelo.