Raptors

We have visitors, to whom I was complaining that it was weeks since we'd last seen a buzzard or a red kite - but, of course, as soon as we went on a walk up into the pine forestry we saw, first, a buzzard, sadly being chased by a couple of crows, and then this....

....beautiful red kite which did a couple of circuits just to make sure we'd seen and admired its spectacular colours, before....

....wheeling away and disappearing behind the tree line.