There were six Red Kites over Prospect Park, Reading, UK, engaged in something somwhere between playing, dominance displays and out right squabbles. None of the birds fled the scene over the twenty minutes or more they were at it, so I have to assume there was not an serious fight going on!
Canon R5 MkII RF200-800mm lens 1/1250s. ISO 500-640.
The camera was still the right way up at this point...
And this photo might explain the acrobatics:
There were six Red Kites over Prospect Park, Reading, UK, engaged in something somwhere between playing, dominance displays and out right squabbles. None of the birds fled the scene over the twenty minutes or more they were at it, so I have to assume there was not an serious fight going on!
Canon R5 MkII RF200-800mm lens 1/1250s. ISO 500-640.
What a cool pic! The comeback red kites have made in the UK is so great.
Yes, and Reading is not so far away from the Oxfordshire release station, so they got to us fast.
Gorgeous! All of them! Great shots.