Swallow-tailed kites — arrival & courtship

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Swallow-tailed kites — arrival & courtship

Fires when in season; aerial acrobatics anywhere in Central FL

Photograph Tom Lazar · CC0

March through June. The notch is October.

No date. in season or not — this one is decided by the weather, not by the calendar, so the honest answer is a month rather than a day.

Where: Central Florida (incl. over Lakeland)
Drive: 0 minutes from Lakeland
In season: March through June
Certainty: in season or not
Drone: no

From the field

The courtship flight is the shot and it happens anywhere overhead — the rare subject here you can take from your own driveway.

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