big birds!

[Pausim]

Loved seeing the white tailed eagles when visiting Scotland. As said previously, not to be found in Dorset but they are reintroducing Ospreys to Poole Harbour.

 

[DavidG58]

Loved seeing the white tailed eagles when visiting Scotland. As said previously, not to be found in Dorset but they are reintroducing Ospreys to Poole Harbour.

the osprey news is good, they should love it there, never seen so many as we did in Florida, more ospreys than gulls

 

[CWH]

PS in the second pic which is pretty darn good for an Eagle pic at distance you can see the female at the front and the male behind, looks like he's already started to moult, that would be a nice memento to find

How did you identify male/ female?

Great to see.
Many years ago for a solar eclipse we did a Munro to sit and watch but just at the top and before the eclipse a white tailed eagle flew over which made our day.

Which Munro was it?

 

[Saltings]

Totally agree with Ridgeway. By the second pic they are definitely White-Tailed i.e Sea Eagles. To see a pair together with the Buzzard as a reference point is really most fortunate. if you live near the coast this is possible but as others have said this is a very rare sight.

Nearer the Chilterns, where we are both Common Buzzards and Red Kites are relatively common.
Saltings

 

[Peter Sansom]

North-west coast of the Isle of Skye

Sounds like the right spot to see them. We get the ubiquitous buzzards here in the Borders. They're quite scary in the season as they have been known to dive bomb cyclists when they pedal beneath their nests.

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[CWH]

Wow, am I lucky or what?
Just taking some stuff from the house to the m/h, looked to my right, there's a juvenile sea eagle (can't call it a white-tailed, as a youngster it doesn't have a white tail yet!) just slowly flying along the loch at the end of the driveway.
Seems our local breeding pair have been successful!

So have the buzzards, 3 juveniles hanging around.

And pair of short-eared owls also flying around the 3 houses here.

 

[PhilandMena]

This February we stopped for one night at Morella and just before we departed had the unique please of watching 13 Condors flying across the terrain. Lucky or what!

 

[DBK]

Wow, am I lucky or what?
Just taking some stuff from the house to the m/h, looked to my right, there's a juvenile sea eagle (can't call it a white-tailed, as a youngster it doesn't have a white tail yet!) just slowly flying along the loch at the end of the driveway.
Seems our local breeding pair have been successful!

So have the buzzards, 3 juveniles hanging around.

And pair of short-eared owls also flying around the 3 houses here.

Wonderful.

 

[TheBig1]

haloween is on the way, so this big bird is getting ready

 

[mushy]

We are presently staying at a site just outside Leeds and there are ten to a dozen Red Kites soaring above all day. They fly as low as the telephone wires and perch in the trees beside the road as you walk below.

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[CWH]

ten to a dozen Red Kites

Didn't know they were around Leeds area.

 

[mushy]

• Here's one of them!
  

 

[Mrsambulancekidd]

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haloween is on the way, so this big bird is getting ready

I do wish MrA would stop sharing this photo of my backside.......

 

[Saltings]

The odd buzzards and Kites seen here on the western fringe of Milton Keynes sounds pretty tame!

But with an organisation like the Milton Keynes Parks Trust caring for 25% of the rural areas in M.K.'s it is a wonder we have any wildlife left. I have attached pictures of the clearance work being carried out in woodland backing on to our garden.

 

[CWH]

I hate to see clearance. I know sometimes it's necessary but it looks ugly and much more than that it really changes the whole dynamic of a place.

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