Here come the kites

As I promised I am going to tell you a bit more about

 “Gigrin Farm, Red Kite Feeding Centre”

You have to go and see it for yourself to understand just how fantastic it really is!

We have been to a red kite feeding centre at Scotland called “Tollies” compared to “Gigrin”, the one in Scotland is no competition at all.

There were too many birds to count they appeared from everywhere, the sky was just full of red kites, a few buzzards and crows.

We had been told the crows would come down first and then the red kites. Wrong the kites just swooped down grabbing lumps of meat in their talons and flying away again, as soon as they had eaten they were back for more. 

There were a couple of smallish buzzards that were in among the kites, one of them grabbed a lump of meat and no matter what he was not giving it up.

The buzzard was knocked about, bowled over jumped on and still he hung on to his meat.

 There were a couple of red kites I managed to catch on the floor, the one with the number 62 on his/her wings spent most of the time on the floor. I wondered if that bird was part of the rehabilitation centre there.

I think this last photo of the red kite shows how wide the span of their wings are, they seemed enormous when they came close up to the hides.

Some people who had gone to see the kites had paid £22 (+ £5 entrance fee,) each to go into “The Tower Hide” this meant they were above the kites so they could get better pictures, there were other hides ranging from £8 - £12 plus the £5 entrance fee,  or the free hides which we chose to use, so it cost £5 for me and £4 for Tony because he was over 65years old.

http://gigrin.co.uk/  this link will take you to the web site for Gigrin Farm so you can read more about it.

I would definitely go back if we were near “Gigrin Farm” it is a sight I will never forget.

Until the next time...