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Swallow-tailed kites — arrival & courtship
Fires when in season; aerial acrobatics anywhere in Central FL
Photograph Tom Lazar · CC0
The weekly build has been paused since October 6, 2026. The seasons and dates below still hold. Events are the ones the last finished build found, in the week of 2026-09-13, that have not happened yet — anything announced since is missing, and nothing here reflects this week's weather.
March through June. The notch is October.
- 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.