Weird effects of the CV - birds

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I live in the suburbs of Leeds. Yesterday I was sat in my garden and I looked up to see a red kite hovering above the neighbours garden. Then it swooped down and tried to go for the neighbours little dog. I ran to the fence and it flew away. The neighbour hadn't seen it happen.

I'm thinking that some of the red kites hover over the takeaway food shops in Leeds and that source of food has dried up.

Just another weird effect of CV.

I have seen gold finches outside our house for the first time ever

My workplace is in the town centre and although I am often working from home we do have to pop in for post etc a few times a week and when I walk by the square that the pigeons use there is in normal times someone feeding them (there are signs asking them not to but the signs are ignored) but now there are few people there and no-one feeding them.

I am not sure how much is real and how much is me just being on edge anyway but they all seem to look as I walk by and quite a few of them fly closer than I would like towards me in some kind of bird gang.

Ironmanrocks They releases 2 or 3 breading pairs on the Harewood House estate in 2000. There are now c40 birds to be seen in all their glory soaring high and swooping low over Harewood village all day every day. They're quite a sight.

Red Kites have been seen in my area (I haven't spotted one yet) but garden birds are becoming more prolific. I had a nuthatch on the feeder earlier today.