Mississippi Kites are pretty.

[Gunbuffer]

You got neighbors with chickens?

Closest thing would be @RickN but he’s technically a chickenhawk

 

[bigred1]

Oh man ... Autocorrect sometimes makes my life seem VERY interesting ... Lol

Freudian slip?

 

[THAT Gurl]

Freudian slip?

Apparently ...

 

[GnometownHero]

They eat sparrows, grackles, starlingnd sqùirrels around my house

 

[tynyphil]

Most of you guys seeing the kites must be in the western part of the state.

Nope I’m in SE OKC

 

[2busy]

Nope I’m in SE OKC

It's 200 miles nw of me so it's close enough to western ok for me.

 

[red dirt shootist]

We have quite a few out back, I love to sit there and watch them fly, and sometimes I'm accompanied by 3 fingers of good Bourbon, it's how I come up with fixes for the worlds problems. But the Kites don't really seem to care.

 

[clintbailey]

They're cannibalistic even; years ago, I watched a guy shoot one in a tree at about 100-150 yards with a 22-250. The claws never released though, so it just hung there (what was left). Within a minute, another kite flew in and started eating on it!

 

[Roadking Larry]

We've had a group of them nesting on the south side of our property for quite a few years now. We enjoy watching them, very graceful fliers.

 

[hammerdown51]

Out doing some yard work this morning and down in the back corner of the yard is a big flowering bush thing. Doing some weed-eating under it and looked up. About 6 feet or so was a Mississippi Kite. It did not dive bomb me, or react in any way. Just sat there watching me work. I started talking to it to let it know I would not bother it if it did not bother me. Kind of cool seeing one that close. Looked just like this one.


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Rescued a young bird a few days ago. Flew into a fence then a bridge. Took it to a rescue down in Noble. Lady said they had 35 of them.