Reviewer: Cary Cornwell

06/14/2009 09:15pm

We've had both the Cardinal and the Blue Jay for close to 10 years. We fly them both when we go camping. Over the years, the colors have started to fade but both kites still fly as good as the day I bought them. When I first received these kites, my first impression was that they would never hold up to the wind as the line connection point was very close to the end of the beak. I would have bet anything that the first hard wind they would rip out. Was I wrong,, these kites extremely durable. What I do is to pound a 2 foot T style fence post into the ground, keeping about 8 to 10 inches out of the ground. Place a 3 foot piece of PVC tubing over the stake. I use a 15 foot cane pole with about 10 feet of fish line. Attach the kite to the end of the fish line with a fishing lure snap hook. Then place the pole inside of the PVC pipe, sit back and enjoy. We get many comments from other campers. I would definitely recommend this product. Well worth the money. In fact, I'm getting ready to order a couple replacement birds and retire the first two.