I own a grass farm in the Chilterns which provides grazing for horses and haymaking. It also provides habitat for hares, skylarks, lapwings and field voles (the staple diet of my resident pair of barn owls) – which is why I am so set against the red kites.
Between 1989 and 1994, red kites from Spain were imported and released into the Chilterns by the RSPB and Natural England.
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