Hallucigenia wrote:Hard to tell obviously, but "feels" a bit more red kite than buzzard? Depends where it is, buzzards are more common in the west but have spread pretty much all over the country now, kites are spreading out from hotspots where they've been reintroduced - you can see them by the dozen in places like Oxfordshire. Kites have a more "punchy", whistley voice, whereas buzzards mew rather pathetically.
Far east of mid Essex.
As I say, the picture from the phone is not very good, but the Mk1 eyeball is certain that they are not Red Kites as the tails are fanned and not V shaped.
We have had the odd Red Kite sighting over here and I am told Common Buzzards are regularly seen over fields and forests, though I've never seen one in Essex.
I suspect that Wallasea Island is causing a change to the bird locations as the geese I mentioned in my earlier post were heading that way the other evening.
Slarti