towards beijing. rupert wingfield hayes, bbc news, with the us navy in the south china sea. when a rare bird of prey was found on a northumberland roadside, he was just a couple of months old — and almost dead. the plan was to release the young red kite, called spencer, back into the wild, if he could be nursed back to health by staff at a wildlife centre. yet because of the trauma he'd suffered, they had no idea how spencer would react to being set free. sharuna sagar has the story. starting, dehydrated, barely alive, spencer, the red kite was rescued from a country road and taken to a bird of prey centre in hexham. spent the whole night with spencer, a syringe with a tube, straight down into his stomach, with a high—protein rehydration fluid, just you would get if you are a human in intensive care. and we do that every two hours until the bird either recovers 01’ retires.