Buzzards (Tourist Eagles) up here are now seen sitting on fenceposts every hundred yards or so. I think the placing of a lot of agricultural land into the set-aside scheme (whereby it is left fallow for a year), and the introduction of "beetle banks" ( a wide strip round the perimeter of the field left unploughed) has seen a huge increase in mice, voles etc and this in turn has meant adults are in fine fettle for breeding and rearing their young.
Red Kites have to be the bonniest BoP though. They are a reintroduction up here and they reckon there are 76 breeding pairs - I think most are within 35 miles of here. Very common site now.

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