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Title: Any avian experts on here?
Post by: Migalot on 25 July 2016, 20:03:52
Saw this huge bird circling around my house this afternoon and used my new camera to take a picture. Any idea what it is?

(http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n270/v6nick/prey%20bird.jpg)
Title: Re: Any avian experts on here?
Post by: Entwood on 25 July 2016, 20:07:19
Possibly a "White Tailed Eagle" ?? .. hard to say as there is no external reference to give a size by .. but you say it was "huge" and the White tail is the largest of English Eagles.

Very rare to find one so far south however ...

head / neck looks a tad short as well .. but that might be the camera angle
Title: Re: Any avian experts on here?
Post by: Migalot on 25 July 2016, 20:35:28
Here are a couple more shots:
(http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n270/v6nick/prey%20bird%202.jpg)

(http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n270/v6nick/prey%20bird%203.jpg)
Title: Re: Any avian experts on here?
Post by: Doctor Gollum on 25 July 2016, 21:23:30
Hawk of some description  :-\ looks proportionately small to be anything more substantial... Had a bird of prey show at the hotel, hawk looked impressive, right upto when they bought an eagle out... That bugger had an 8'+  wing span and was eyeing up all the kids watching as a potential snack ;D
Title: Re: Any avian experts on here?
Post by: Lazydocker on 26 July 2016, 00:27:17
May well have been flown for pest control :-\
Title: Re: Any avian experts on here?
Post by: 78bex on 26 July 2016, 01:32:06
Buzzard or maybe Marsh Harrier  :-\
Title: Re: Any avian experts on here?
Post by: McBandy on 26 July 2016, 08:07:05
May well have been flown for pest control :-\

Wouldn't you rather it be done this way than use poisons or shoot them?
Title: Re: Any avian experts on here?
Post by: biggriffin on 26 July 2016, 09:02:59
At a quick look, red tailed kite/hawk.
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Post by: omegod on 26 July 2016, 09:16:25
Whatever the handsome bugger is I'd be keeping my cats in the house  ;D
Title: Re: Any avian experts on here?
Post by: biggriffin on 26 July 2016, 12:25:47
Whatever the handsome bugger is I'd be keeping my cats in the house  ;D

Wouldn't touch them, unless it was starving,.

Let's put a carry on spin on this
. "Er some birds been eating my pussy" said Mrs Slocombe  :D ;D :o
Title: Re: Any avian experts on here?
Post by: aaronjb on 26 July 2016, 12:36:40
Whatever the handsome bugger is I'd be keeping my cats in the house  ;D

Wouldn't touch them, unless it was starving,.

Let's put a carry on spin on this
. "Er some birds been eating my pussy" said Mrs Slocombe  :D ;D :o

Carry On Carrion?
Title: Re: Any avian experts on here?
Post by: Varche on 26 July 2016, 13:15:49
 ;D ;D

I'd say red kite , maybe juvenile.
Title: Re: Any avian experts on here?
Post by: Migalot on 26 July 2016, 13:35:23
;D ;D

I'd say red kite , maybe juvenile.

Not juvenile at all, Varche. Rather a grown-up observation, I would say!  ;)

Someone on my FB page reckons it's a sparrowhawk.
Title: Re: Any avian experts on here?
Post by: plym ian on 26 July 2016, 14:25:53
Looks like a hawk. They fly them down here occasionally to keep the seagulls at bay
Title: Re: Any avian experts on here?
Post by: TD on 26 July 2016, 17:47:27
Whatever the handsome bugger is I'd be keeping my cats in the house  ;D

Wouldn't touch them, unless it was starving,.

Let's put a carry on spin on this
. "Er some birds been eating my pussy" said Mrs Slocombe  :D ;D :o

Or even 'Are you being served' ....
Title: Re: Any avian experts on here?
Post by: LFF64 on 26 July 2016, 20:48:02
It's not a red kite they have forked tails and they are red
Title: Re: Any avian experts on here?
Post by: Andy H on 26 July 2016, 21:04:43
A bit scruffy perhaps but it looks very like a buzzard to me.

(http://www.boblethaby.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Common_Buzzard_in_flight_2010-06-16.jpg)
Title: Re: Any avian experts on here?
Post by: ronnyd on 26 July 2016, 22:47:19
Looks like a Buzzard.
Title: Re: Any avian experts on here?
Post by: minifreek on 28 July 2016, 10:57:06
After a quick Google, I have come to the conclusion that its some sort of bird of prey.....

Its not an Eagle (you dont find them that far south, they prefer cold climates)

It could be a Sparrow Hawk

It could also be a Harris Hawk, but they tend to have tethers attached to their legs, as they are the most common type of 'pet' bird of prey....

I initially thought it was an Osprey, but not enough white in the underwing parts....

It is more than likely a Common Buzzard...
Title: Re: Any avian experts on here?
Post by: Doctor Gollum on 28 July 2016, 11:49:38
Defford not a Harris Hawk... Saw one up close (5") last week. Shape is all wrong too :y
Title: Re: Any avian experts on here?
Post by: Shackeng on 28 July 2016, 17:56:33
Looks very like the buzzards we get round here. :y
Title: Re: Any avian experts on here?
Post by: Tony H on 31 July 2016, 17:25:03
It's a buzzard.