Just left the swallow-tailed kite in the area described so perfectly by Kathi Hutton yesterday.
It was perched and preening in the dead tree for about ten minutes, then stretched and took off to begin its day if insect-catching.  A really beautiful little raptor.
Susan Kailholz


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