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Red kites fly again!

Only a very occasional poet, I was very pleased to find this in the BBC Wildlife magazine.

Eccup reservoir is very close to North Yorkshire’s Harewood House, where there is a feeding station for these magnificent birds. The Emmerdale village is also in the grounds, so I had many opportunities to observe them during my years as a television ‘extra’. They disrupted filming on more than one occasion, notably on the day when some helium balloons were launched to celebrate a character’s birthday and the birds attacked them.

Please go to the Stories and Poems section of this website if you’d like to read ‘Red Kites’.

 

 

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