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Date	Species	Site	Count	Observer
31/12/05	Red Kite	Charvil Meadows	3	D Blackmore
13:30	circling over Meadow.
31/12/05	Red Kite	Tilehurst	2	G Sumner
13:05	Circling over the Triangle.
29/12/05	Red Kite	Searles Farm Lane GP, Burghfield GPs	1	P Gipson
15:00	Please only view from the public footpath.
29/12/05	Red Kite	Combe Hill	4	M J Taylor
10:30	Seen from Hogs Hole area.
29/12/05	Red Kite	Combe Gibbet	1	M J Taylor
10:30
29/12/05	Red Kite	Great Shefford	1	M J Taylor
09:00
29/12/05	Red Kite	Tilehurst	3	G Sumner
11:40	Circling over the Triangle.
29/12/05	Red Kite	Purley on Thames, Reading	3	M J Smith
	2 untagged birds soaring together over Home Farm and 3rd bird 15 mins later, all roost in Oxon and drift south 10 am'ish.
27/12/05	Red Kite	Westbrook	1	M Stuttard
13:25	Circling over next door's garden!
26/12/05	Red Kite	Spencers Wood	3	N Rampton
14:30	Hawking the fields from garden (1 bird tagged).
24/12/05	Red Kite	Great Shefford	1	M Stuttard
13:30	SU387749.
21/12/05	Red Kite	White Swan Lake, Dinton Pastures CP	1	P Cropper
11:00
21/12/05	Red Kite	Reading	1	M J Taylor
13:00	Over Rose Kiln Lane.
19/12/05	Red Kite	Tilehurst	2	W Brown
13:00	soaring in a stack.
19/12/05	Red Kite	Woodley	1	T Deacon
13:00
18/12/05	Red Kite	Combe Hill	3	M J McKee

18/12/05	Red Kite	Inkpen Hill	1	M J McKee

18/12/05	Red Kite	Cold Harbour, Knowl Hill	2	G Brookes
10:30
17/12/05	Red Kite	Pangbourne Meadow	1	L R Blundell
11:45
16/12/05	Red Kite	Jealott's Hill	1	P J Crowley
12:00
15/12/05	Red Kite	Hermitage	2	M J Taylor
	together.
15/12/05	Red Kite	Prospect Park	1	R C Watts
11:05	flying low near water road.
15/12/05	Red Kite	Cold Harbour, Knowl Hill	1	R Dryden
09:10
15/12/05	Red Kite	Lavell's Lake, Dinton Pastures CP	1	F J Cottington
08:43	Over low south.
10/12/05	Red Kite	Woodley	1	T Deacon
13:30	circling above house.
04/12/05	Red Kite	Emmer Green	1	D A Boyd
14:00	at the 18th hole of Reading Golf Club. Plus two Buzzards being mobbed by corvids at the 14th. PS. Played badly!!
04/12/05	Red Kite	Woose Hill	1	P Bright-Thomas
13:00
04/12/05	Red Kite	Woodley	1	T Deacon
13:00
28/11/05	Red Kite	Winnersh	1	R Angus
10:15	Flying over Reading Road.
28/11/05	Red Kite	Tilehurst	1	W Brown
13:30	over armour rd.
27/11/05	Red Kite	Purley on Thames, Reading	2	M J Smith
	usual birds drifting along railway ridge.
27/11/05	Red Kite	Thames Valley Business Park	2	S Hughes

25/11/05	Red Kite	Bury Down	2	J Goodchild
13:30
25/11/05	Red Kite	Cold Harbour, Knowl Hill	1	R Dryden
09:00	On the ground in the middle of the field.
23/11/05	Red Kite	Swallowfield	1	M S Whitaker
14:00
20/11/05	Red Kite	Lavell's Lake, Dinton Pastures CP	1	S A Graham
12:00	Flow in from the NE, and then headed off W.
18/11/05	Red Kite	Bury Down	2	G Sumner
11:30	Possibly 3.
13/11/05	Red Kite	Englefield	1	R Crawford

12/11/05	Red Kite	Lavell's Lake, Dinton Pastures CP	1	T Deacon
12:00
11/11/05	Red Kite	Calcot, Reading	1	N Rampton
13:30	Flying over Bath Road nr Southcote Beef Eater.
09/11/05	Red Kite	Fairview Avenue, Earley	1	M S Whitaker
14:50	Directly over my house.
08/11/05	Red Kite	Ruscombe	1	P Bright-Thomas
09:30	Low over houses along A3032.
07/11/05	Red Kite	Stichens Green	4	W Brown
10:00
05/11/05	Red Kite	Bury Down	3	R A Haynes
11:00
04/11/05	Red Kite	Tilehurst	1	W Brown
13:30	low over armour rd.
31/10/05	Red Kite	Spencers Wood	1	N Rampton
10:30	over garden - local bird seen most days now - usually very low.
31/10/05	Red Kite	Bury Down	1	A N Stow
14:45
30/10/05	Red Kite	Woolley Down	50	S Wilson
16:30	2 birds mobbing one to drop it's food which it did. Was a field mushroom; tell that to the gamekeepers.
30/10/05	Red Kite	Cold Harbour, Knowl Hill	1	P Bright-Thomas
10:30	In field.
29/10/05	Red Kite	Cold Harbour, Knowl Hill	1	G Randall
09:15
27/10/05	Red Kite	Basildon	1	W Brown
10:00	over child beal park.
23/10/05	Red Kite	Farnborough	1	P Jones
	1.
22/10/05	Red Kite	Combe Gibbet	10	K Spring

17/10/05	Red Kite	Bury Down	3	R A Haynes
10:00
16/10/05	Red Kite	Thames Valley Business Park	1	S Hughes

16/10/05	Red Kite	Streatley Warren	8	M Raper
11:30	One with tags.
15/10/05	Red Kite	Berkshire Downs at Aldworth	2	P J Crowley
13:30
15/10/05	Red Kite	Cold Harbour, Knowl Hill	2	P J Crowley
09:00	adult and immature.
14/10/05	Red Kite	Cow Down, West Ilsley	1	S A Graham
14:45	Hunting the N. slop before heading SW towards West Ilsley, intermitantly mobbed by Corvids.
13/10/05	Red Kite	A329(M)	3	C Gott
14:20
12/10/05	Red Kite	Bottle Lane, Cold Harbour	2	P Bright-Thomas
08:45	ad + imm.
11/10/05	Red Kite	Woolley Down	60	S Wilson
17:15	This is over a period of 45 mins. The roost at Wooley Park had at least 40 -50 (difficult to count) put up by a low flying RAF 'copter and flew off with the wind west circling over the A338 B4 returning slowly. On my way home just past Woolley Barns were at least another 20 waiting to come in. So 60 is an absolute minimum.
10/10/05	Red Kite	Caversham	1	R Dryden
13:55	Over Henley Road heading towards cemetery.
09/10/05	Red Kite	Purley on Thames, Reading	2	G Sumner
14:00	Circling low over gardens in Long Lane.
09/10/05	Red Kite	Moor Green Lakes	1	R J Godden
12:00	At least one, probably two seen during work party, over new workings, then circling over car park.
08/10/05	Red Kite	Woose Hill	1	P Bright-Thomas
15:00	Low S over garden.
08/10/05	Red Kite	Lavell's Lake, Dinton Pastures CP	1	J Goodchild
13:15
07/10/05	Red Kite	Cold Harbour, Knowl Hill	4	P J Crowley
17:30
07/10/05	Red Kite	Woolley Down	31	S Wilson
17:35	Count over an hour. The actual roost is in Wooley Park (private) Numbers have been increasing but this is the record by 11 for me.
05/10/05	Red Kite	Cold Harbour, Knowl Hill	1	P Bright-Thomas
08:00	To W.
03/10/05	Red Kite	Earley	1	C Gott
15:00
03/10/05	Red Kite	Bury Down	1	R A Haynes
10:00
02/10/05	Red Kite	Streatley	2	S A Graham
18:00	2 juv. Feeding on presumed bird carcass.
29/09/05	Red Kite	Cold Harbour, Knowl Hill	1	M S Whitaker
15:30
29/09/05	Red Kite	Beedon	1	S A Graham
08:30	Flying N. along the A34.
26/09/05	Red Kite	Lavell's Lake, Dinton Pastures CP	1	J Goodchild
13:15
03/09/05	Red Kite	Lavell's Lake, Dinton Pastures CP	1	J Goodchild
13:15
22/09/05	Red Kite	Lavell's Lake, Dinton Pastures CP	2	F J Cottington
13:30
22/09/05	Red Kite	Tilehurst	1	W Brown
13:30
22/09/05	Red Kite	Caversham	2	R C Watts
12:21
18/09/05	Red Kite	Lavell's Lake, Dinton Pastures CP	1	F J Cottington
12:35	Over WSL from Woodley direction.
13/09/05	Red Kite	Bray GPs	1	C Reeve
11:40
12/09/05	Red Kite	Lavell's Lake, Dinton Pastures CP	2	F J Cottington
13:10
12/09/05	Red Kite	Spencers Wood	1	N Rampton
13:30	passed garden.
02/09/05	Red Kite	Bottle Lane, Cold Harbour	1	P Bright-Thomas
09:15
01/09/05	Red Kite	Burnthouse Lane GP, Pingewood GPs	1	K E Moore
16:30	Please only view from the public footpath.
31/08/05	Red Kite	Aston	2	A N Stow
17:00
29/08/05	Red Kite	Burnthouse Lane GP, Pingewood GPs	1	G Randall
12:30	Please only view from the public footpath.
28/08/05	Red Kite	Cookham Dean	1	M D Lenney
13:00
28/08/05	Red Kite	Burghfield	1	D R Glover
15:10	Following plough in field south of Theale Road. First sighting in Burghfield Village that I am aware of.
23/08/05	Red Kite	Remenham	2	A N Stow
19:45
23/08/05	Red Kite	Shurlock Row	1	J Goodey
10:00
21/08/05	Red Kite	Woose Hill	1	P Bright-Thomas
10:45	ad. Over E ... possibly same bird as at Lavell's on 18/08, similar moult state.
18/08/05	Red Kite	Jealott's Hill	1	P J Crowley
12:30	circling over a wheat field being cut.
18/08/05	Red Kite	Lavell's Lake, Dinton Pastures CP	1	P Bright-Thomas
09:15	Ad/sub-ad moulting P6/P7 and outer tail feathers 50% grown.
17/08/05	Red Kite	Binfield	1	M Sales
12:45	Over allotments.
17/08/05	Red Kite	Wokingham	1	M D Lenney
13:00	Cantley Park.
11/08/05	Red Kite	Fifield	2	C Reeve
13:00	Over fields south of Fifield.
11/08/05	Red Kite	Cold Harbour, Knowl Hill	3	R Dryden
08:40	One by A4, two from black gate.
10/08/05	Red Kite	Jealott's Hill	4	P J Crowley
12:30	Over wheat field cut yesterday.
09/08/05	Red Kite	Jealott's Hill	1	P J Crowley
12:30	following a combine harvester.
08/08/05	Red Kite	Remenham	1	A N Stow
16:00
08/08/05	Red Kite	Ruscombe	3	P Bright-Thomas
09:15	ad. Two in dead oak.
05/08/05	Red Kite	Ruscombe	1	G Randall
16:00
04/08/05	Red Kite	Jealott's Hill	2	P J Crowley
12:30	hunting over fields near the golf course.
31/07/05	Red Kite	Arthur Newbery Park, Tilehurst	2	W Brown
15:00	over park.
30/07/05	Red Kite	Woodley	1	T Gibson
14:00	SU756735.
29/07/05	Red Kite	Jealott's Hill	1	L R Blundell
14:50
26/07/05	Red Kite	Binfield	1	J Goodey
10:00
26/07/05	Red Kite	Remenham	1	A N Stow
15:00
26/07/05	Red Kite	Jealott's Hill	1	P J Crowley
13:00	Flew over.
25/07/05	Red Kite	Remenham	3	A N Stow
16:30
25/07/05	Red Kite	Swallowfield	1	M D Lenney
15:00	Very ragged bird.Also cycling past moor green 4 youths seen climbing over screen next to colebrook hide and running around scrape.
25/07/05	Red Kite	Basildon	2	W Brown
10:00
24/07/05	Red Kite	Wokingham	1	S Dimond
17:00	Over Bullfinch car park.
22/07/05	Red Kite	Binfield, Foxley Fields	1	M J Barker
16:50	passing over.
22/07/05	Red Kite	Hurst	1	P Bright-Thomas
09:00	South past the church, very tatty, misisng central tail feathers and sub-outer primaries.
18/07/05	Red Kite	M4 J8/9	1	R Dryden
09:10	Drifting east over the junction.
17/07/05	Red Kite	Maidenhead Thicket	10	G R Farrell
14:00	deu to grass cutting.
11/07/05	Red Kite	Bucklebury	3	W Brown
	near bucklebury ford.
07/07/05	Red Kite	Remenham	1	A N Stow
11:45
05/07/05	Red Kite	Winnersh	1	F J Cottington
13:30	Over A329 near Do it all.
05/07/05	Red Kite	M4 junction 8/9 > 10	1	P Bright-Thomas
08:50	Low over fields to S of M4.
30/06/05	Red Kite	Finchampstead	1	J McNeill

04/07/05	Red Kite	Beedon	1	S A Graham
06:30	Hunting the fields SE of the village incompany with a Buzzard.
03/07/05	Red Kite	Whiteknights Lake, Reading	1	P Gipson
16:17
03/07/05	Red Kite	Tilehurst	3	G Sumner
14:42	Soaring together over Pierces Hill.
02/07/05	Red Kite	Lavell's Lake, Dinton Pastures CP	1	S Dimond
17:00
02/07/05	Red Kite	Reading	1	P Gipson
13:24	Over Basingstoke Road.
01/07/05	Red Kite	Lavell's Lake, Dinton Pastures CP	1	R Reedman
10:45
29/06/05	Red Kite	World's End	1	S A Graham
11:30	W. of Langley Wood.
29/06/05	Red Kite	The Wharf, Newbury	1	S A Graham
11:20	Flying W. over central Newbury.
27/06/05	Red Kite	East Ilsley	1	S A Graham
20:00	Flying E. over the A34, low into the trees alongside the road.
28/06/05	Red Kite	Bucklebury	1	P Jones
16:00	Juv. resting in oak tree and flushed out, headed north. SU571694.
27/06/05	Red Kite	Lavell's Lake, Dinton Pastures CP	2	P Bright-Thomas
09:00	Over lake/tip.
26/06/05	Red Kite	Hare Hatch	2	R C Watts
15:40	CIRCLING OVER A4 ROAD NEAR BUZZARD.
26/06/05	Red Kite	Bottom Lane Floods (S), Theale GPs	1	K Spring
15:00	Being mobbed by a Common tern.
26/06/05	Red Kite	Newbury Racecourse	1	S A Graham
11:45	Ragged looking bird hunting over the E. end of the race course, being mobbed by a C. Tern again.
23/06/05	Red Kite	Chieveley	1	S A Graham
11:25	Heading W. over the A34, N. of the M4/J13.
23/06/05	Red Kite	Wokingham	3	B M Archer
13:30	Soaring high over the fields just south of Waterloo Rd.
22/06/05	Red Kite	Lavell's Lake, Dinton Pastures CP	3	F J Cottington
13:00	Way north.
21/06/05	Red Kite	Hut Hill, Swinley Forest	2	M G McCarthy
13:00	soaring high over Hut Hill. Drifted off E.
21/06/05	Red Kite	Waltham St Lawrence	7	P Bright-Thomas
09:00	4 birds circling over Waltham St Lawrence and 3 more close to A4.
20/06/05	Red Kite	Caversham	1	R Dryden
19:00	Over Garden.
20/06/05	Red Kite	Charvil	2	R Dryden
13:30
20/06/05	Red Kite	Finchampstead	4	B McCartney
15:00	Two circling very high towards Fleet Hill and two very low around Lea Copse.
19/06/05	Red Kite	Lambourn Downs	1	J Legg
08:30	plus at least 6 seen along the road back to Newbury.
18/06/05	Red Kite	Thatcham	1	R Keel
	Circling low over my garden.
18/06/05	Red Kite	Dinton Pastures CP	1	B J Hollands

18/06/05	Red Kite	Englefield	1	R Crawford
08:00
17/06/05	Red Kite	Brimpton	2	R A Haynes
16:20	Soaring over the village.
17/06/05	Red Kite	Grays Farm, Bracknell	1	N R Godden
11:00	North of the farm where it flew east low over the long row of trees.
13/06/05	Red Kite	Reading	1	T Crompton
18:05	Circling right over the centre of the town - makes you feel very glad indeed !
13/06/05	Red Kite	Binfield, Foxley Fields	1	M J Barker
14:25	persued by an irate Crow, then circling for a good few minutes. Headed off in a westerly direction.
12/06/05	Red Kite	Lower Farm GP	1	S A Graham
12:15	Being mobbed by a Common Tern as it drifted off to the SW.
10/06/05	Red Kite	Cow Down, West Ilsley	1	S A Graham
14:30	Putting up the Corvids over a recently cut field of grass.
12/06/05	Red Kite	Thatcham	2	R Keel
11:45	To south-east over car boot sale. One mobbed by BH Gull.
11/06/05	Red Kite	Moatlands Car Park Pit, Theale GPs	1	K E Moore
14:45
11/06/05	Red Kite	Thatcham	1	P Jones
13:00	ad. Observed circling over field and then met by mobbing rook. Kite then dropped a small bird from tallons (unidentified but not juv. rook and flew northwards to escape). Encounter between kite and rook continued for several mins. SU501681.
10/06/05	Red Kite	Thames Valley Business Park	1	S Dimond
13:30	Soaring round and round over the nature reserve.
09/06/05	Red Kite	Cold Harbour, Knowl Hill	1	R Dryden
08:40
09/06/05	Red Kite	Binfield	7	K Creed
14:20	Bottle Lane.
09/06/05	Red Kite	Green Park	1	T Crompton
14:15	In usual place, over tip.
09/06/05	Red Kite	Binfield	5	M Sales
11:15	Over allotments + 1 Buzzard.
08/06/05	Red Kite	Lavell's Lake, Dinton Pastures CP	4	F J Cottington
14:30
08/06/05	Red Kite	Green Park	2	T Crompton
14:30	2 circling with gulls, flying very close together and mimicking each other.
08/06/05	Red Kite	Arborfield	4	B McCartney
10:45	2 just northwest of the village circling and playing at low level and two just south of the village circling high. What joy!
06/06/05	Red Kite	Charvil	1	R Dryden
08:40	Over A4.
05/06/05	Red Kite	Combe Gibbet	1	S A Graham
11:00
02/06/05	Red Kite	M4 J10	1	P Bright-Thomas
08:30
02/06/05	Red Kite	Caversham	1	R Keel
11:00	Drifting south over Reading Crematorium.
01/06/05	Red Kite	Richfield Avenue, Reading	1	D R Glover
	Flying low over pop festival site.
31/05/05	Red Kite	Dorney Wetlands, Jubilee River	3	P Cropper
09:00	uncommon at this site, apparantly.
01/06/05	Red Kite	Cold Ash	1	R Fuge
11:40	ad. one circled over Cold Ash Hill for approx 5 mins then drifted south east.
01/06/05	Red Kite	Colebrook Lake, Moor Green Lakes	1	B M Archer
06:30	Flew west over the lake getting a rough reception from the Gulls and Terns.
31/05/05	Red Kite	Swallowfield	1	B McCartney
13:30	Low over Swallowfield church then up river. SU732647.
30/05/05	Red Kite	Caesar's Camp, Swinley Forest	1	M D Lenney

30/05/05	Red Kite	Sonning	4	M S Whitaker
11:30	Over a field beside A4.
29/05/05	Red Kite	Greenham Common	1	J Legg
10:00	Good butterflies also seen including green hairstreak, brown argos, grizzled skipper, dingy skipper, small copper. Please keep to the main paths.
27/05/05	Red Kite	Winterbourne	2	M J Taylor
08:15	over garden.
23/05/05	Red Kite	Sulham	1	W Brown
10:00
22/05/05	Red Kite	Englefield	1	R Crawford

20/05/05	Red Kite	Lavell's Lake, Dinton Pastures CP	1	P Bright-Thomas
08:50	Ad. Missing several inner primaries on left wing, and one on right, white or yellow tag on left wing.
17/05/05	Red Kite	Remenham	2	A N Stow
16:30
17/05/05	Red Kite	Ruscombe	3	P Bright-Thomas
09:10	One bird with blue and white tag on right wing, nothing on left.
15/05/05	Red Kite	Moor Copse	1	M Raper
13:00
15/05/05	Red Kite	Boxford	1	M Stuttard
11:30
11/05/05	Red Kite	Sulhamstead	2	S Davies
14:00	Feeding pair, sighting for over an hour in a field next to Kennet canal. Mobbed by crows several times. SU634696.
12/05/05	Red Kite	Theale	1	J Townsend
18:00	Single RK no more than 40 ft above the Woodfield Way estate! Later seen being chased away by another bird.
12/05/05	Red Kite	Ruscombe	1	P Bright-Thomas
09:30
12/05/05	Red Kite	Reading	1	S Harney
07:45	Circling over Kennet towpath near Blakes Lock.
11/05/05	Red Kite	Beedon	1	A Denness
14:00
12/05/05	Red Kite	Beedon	1	A Denness
14:00
11/05/05	Red Kite	Binfield	1	M Sales
14:50	Over allotments.
10/05/05	Red Kite	Green Park	1	T Crompton
11:49	1 circling with gulls over the tip behind Green Park.
08/05/05	Red Kite	Caversham	2	R Dryden
16:40	Over Garden.
09/05/05	Red Kite	Green Park	1	T Crompton
15:00	4 circling behind Green Park, dive bombing each other, rising in thermal previously used by mixed flock of gulls (this is better than work !).