Tuesday 26 December 2017

Boxing Day Birding

Capel Fleet - Raptor Watch Point

07:00 - 09:30 Cold, bright with a stiff SW wind.

With having done all the cooking yesterday I was allowed a couple of hours of for good behaviour this morning

The car head lights picked out a Barn Owl flying across the road just before the viewing mound. From the mound a cracking male Hen Harrier flew through and the only other birds of prey seen were  5 Marsh Harriers, 3 Buzzards including a pale morph bird which maybe the bird responsible for the reports of a Rough-legged in the area recently and 1 Kestrel.
A Little Egret landed close to the mound and a couple of Corn Buntings landed briefly in the bushes, good numbers of Fieldfares, Redwings and the commoner Finches were feeding in the hedges and game strips



                                                                   Fieldfare


Buzzard 

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