I watched the bird glide on thermals across a brooding gun-grey sky that threatened thunder, the distinctive forked tail twitched as it negotiated fledgling winds quickly growing in fury.
Then another, cloud high above the first. A near dot, yet the shape was unmistakeable. And another, soaring like some malevolent vulture in a Wild West movie.
I watched the kites circle from the comfort of my conservatory. And my village, which straddles the Shropshire-South Staffordshire border, is a mere nine miles from Wolverhampton’s diesel driven heartland. In the 1970s, when journalism restricted my birdwatching breaks, finding red kites required a trip to the Elan Valley and stop-off at the market town of Tregaron, Ceredigion. And there was no guarantee of a fruitful journey.
Jeff Knott, RSPB operations director for Central England, underlined the extent of the phoenix from the ashes triumph: “In the 1980s, anyone who wanted to see a red kite had to make a dedicated pilgrimage to a handful of locations. Today, it is a daily sight for millions of people.
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