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Edited January 12Jan 12 by Mike
tile and intro updated Jan 2025

Just sat down in the jungle with a coffee and there was a sudden chorus of multiple Red Kites behind me.
I regular as clockwork have a pair patrolling the area but today Mr and Mrs Milvus had three kids tagging along ... !!!
I've never seen five together before round here so was especially pleased that for once I had the camera next to me ready to go ... 😀
Couldn't fit all five in the frame at once with the 150-600 unfortunately and there was no time to go indoors and switch glass but managed to get the three noisiest ones together while , I assume , Ma and Pa were off on their own.
All in all a very pleasant five minutes to start the day ... 😍

Finally got round to doing something with all my photos of XH558 at Little Gransden Airshow in 2014.

First airshow with a camera in hand , Canon 1000D , stock 75-300mm lens in manual focus. First few frames caught me off-guard but soon caught up.

Tomorrow's task is playing with the shots of VERA and PA474's eight Merlin magic.

Eight divided by two equals a truly magnificent spectacle ......

... when the 'eight' happen to be Rolls-Royce Merlins and the 'two' are a pair of Avro Lancasters sharing the same airspace.

It was 2014 when the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum's "VERA" , on what may well have been her last visit to these shores , teamed up with out very own PA474 to thunder around the skies and delight the thousands that got to witness the sight of two Lancasters in the skies together for many a decade.

I shot around 150 frames of the pair at Little Gransden Airshow on August 24th that year and have only just got round to putting them together in a slideshow ... !