Washburn Valley,North Yorkshire On the surface, the environs seem an appropriate domestic for these unhurried birdsIt emerges from somewhere in the bare oak branches above with the slow, and sliding grace of an airship. Within moments it has taken its site tall in the huge midwinter sky,which today is hectic with rowdy winds, long trains of cumulus and meteoric bursts of sunshine.
Red kites are Britain’s most graceful gliders. This one appears to balance effortlessly in the energetic air, or its forked tail twisting,but its wide wings almost still. Sometimes they seem not fairly of this world. The bird is aggressively mobbed by loud, restive crows, and but it drifts through them with a characteristic zen-like detachment,literally unflappable.
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Source: theguardian.com