Date: 6/10/25 11:38 pm
From: condor262001 via groups.io <condor262001...>
Subject: [LACoBirds] Swallow-tailed kite
Sadly this site doesn't seem to have as much as activity as in the past.
For anyone who is not on ebird or what's app one could do worse than start looking here in the morning,

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33°47'23.1"N 118°17'30.2"W. (North end of Ken Malloy Regional Park off Vermont).
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It spent many hours there on Monday morning  and in the afternoon, around 3 to 4,  it was flying around the same area.

One interesting aspect I discovered when entering my ebird data was that a kite was seen in mid April in mid Baja
and in west Mexico early to mid April. So perhaps the same bird moving up the wrong coast.

I was able to get a short video (actually ~90 hi-frame rate jpegs) showing a beautiful banked turn.
A very graceful flyer.
see https://www.flickr.com/photos/25876581@N00/

Jim Hecht
Hermosa Beach CA


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