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Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Honey Buzzard
Hi all sorry for late post but I've been at work.Spent most of the afternoon at Ringstone and it was apparent that there was a big movment of hirundines when I arrived .About 400 + Swallows,50 House martin and 10 sand martin all south west,'Sean of the rings' was just leaving and he told me of Goldcrest and willow warbler in the hedge.3 Great C Grebes ,2 Teal,8 LBBGull,70 BHGull and 2 Common Gull.Around the walls looking for migrants turned up more Mipits,Stonechat,Wheatear,flushed a Grey partridge ,Whintchat(thanks SeanOTR)and a few Pied Wags overhead.Then in the distance a large raptor over Krumlin heading towards Ringstone looked imediatly good for Honey Buzzard with flat long wings and protuding head.i eventually got it in the scope and watched it for a couple of minutes before it headed of towards scammonden.Description to follow.
2 comments:
Apologies to all on the grapevine, Andy sent me a text re this bird and I forwarded it on to Dave S forgetting that we have an agreement that any we receive from each other have already "been sent out", my mistake.
Never mind the 'mistake' Nick - what a great record. I think a Honey Buzzard at this time is not entirely unexpected. Problem is just finding one going over - and identifying it! Well done Andy. Still time for another and the forecast looks a bit better for the next day or two.
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