Red kites near Dumfries, Scotland, October 2023

I’ve always been a birdwatcher and I’ve seen some of Britain’s best bird events like the Starling murmurations at Ham Wall and I’ve sat in a Puffin colony in the Outer Hebrides, so I was excited to be visiting Dumfries and Galloway last week and was hoping to see some of the thousands of Geese that arrive there for the winter having travelled from Iceland or Scandinavia. However, because of the warm weather only a few had arrived so our visit to the bird reserves near the Solway Firth were a bit disappointing. We decided to visit the  Bellymack Hill farm Kite feeding Station near Dumfries and wow it was spectacular. Hundreds of Kites arrived and when they swooped down to feed I couldn’t get anything except blurred photos. I did however get a video but I have yet to work out how to insert it here so heres some photos