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Red Kites were common in London when Shakespeare lived, and valued, because carrion eaters kept Elizabethan streets clean of offal.

But later kites were persecuted and became extinct in most of Britain, certainly where I live. But protected, encouraged, and reintroduced they have gradually found their former territory.

Yesterday to my joy, I saw one in the village where I live. I'd heard they were again, but this was my first sighting.

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