Kites and Keep Off Signs

Ten years ago I had never seen a Red Kite. Today in Albury, an almost non-existent village in Oxfordshire, I could barely look up into the summer sky without seeing one.

Photo by Phil Robson on Unsplash

Red Kites are one of the great success stories of the 21^st century. For most of the twentieth century, the UK population was restricted to a handful of b…