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[nannyo]

Had a surprising moment of wildness today as I walked home from the dentist's. Just above a bus stop, in our rather nondescript housing estate, were three red kites. Never have I seen them so absolutely deserve the name sky dancers. It was like a secret gift, just for me. None of the other people walking around even looked up once

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[nmg]

My dad is a bit of a twitcher, and I've probably inherited some latent spotterish genes from him. He's kept a UK life list for at least the past two decades (possibly close to three decades), but there are still two British birds that I've seen and he hasn't: the ptarmigan, and the red kite