Female kite with butterfly. Photo by Vic Berardi.

Female kite with butterfly. Photo by Vic Berardi.

Dan and Barbara Williams and I have been monitoring kites near Bloom School this year. Kites first appeared in the last half of May. There was one pair of adults, and another pair with an adult male and a subadult female. Neither pair apparently nested at the school, as they did last year. However, a juvenile bird has been flying around for the last 4 days. If you want to see any of these birds, don’t delay, as they could leave for wintering grounds in the next week or two. While you might see them from the school grounds, you are more likely to find them in the area bounded by Highcrest, Westchester, Guilford, and Stratford. Besides checking the skies frequently, you should check possible perch places, like bare tree branches, TV antennas, etc.