Tuesday 20 November 2012

Vagrant or Escaped Eagle?

The following email was received today. Sounds interesting. There are some photographs but they are proving difficult to download at the moment. At present the site is witheld. Any further information and accessible photos will be posted.


 '... i watched these  birds from  a far distance..... the four smaller birds i think were buzzards  the other bird was very much larger   my son said it looks like a wedge tailed eagle  the size of this bird was really large..... when compared to the smaller buzzards  from a distance i thought  at first it was a great skua but could  see it was a bird of prey from the  wing tips which were very long and even from  a great distance.......the large bird was just flapping away while the smaller ones were really bothered by him he just seemed to be dismissing them as if they were just trivial annoyances  and just kept going his own way with the others just trying to  move him on......'.
                                                                            regards
                                                                                        E   EDWARDS