juv common buzzard
CB vs HB (textbook)
Saturday, 14 September 2019
Honey Buzzard
This morning (14th@8:45) a HB (looked like an intermediate-type juv with a dark-ish mask and white in the breast etc) flew along Bonchurch Down and circled over Nansen Hill before leaving our coast line to cross the channel (over Monks Bay). Somewhat unprepared - with the camera in my rucksack - but still managed to get some record shots in the dimmest of light as it got ready to leave. And surprisingly, despite staking out the 'raptor' mound for most of the morning, nothing else of that quality followed. [Conditions: Easterlies/F3/Overcast then bright later on]
Black redstart (15/09)
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