Yesterday's pheasant photo was good, but it wasn't my first sighting. Today was altogether in a different league.
The gulls were flocking and behaving somewhat erratically when I went outside. Generally they flock at fairly high altitudes round here, but today they were tending to come in lower and fights were breaking out among them. Also they were heading away, rather than the usual defensive circling.
Gulls fighting on the wing
As the sky cleared of gulls I looked up and saw a large slow-winged bird coming into view. It wasn't a sparrowhawk. It was too large. Blow me away, it was a buzzard! Although common in the UK, they are generally located further north and west. In recent years they have been re-colonizing in the South East and sightings are not unusual. But until today, I'd never seen one.
Buzzard
Buzzard
Buzzard
I spent much of the rest of the day with my eyes towards the heavens. No more raptors, but I did manage some decent flight shots of pigeons and magpies which are in the March Birds album.
Flying Red Fox Blog
3 Mar 2007Lovelly pics! especially the first one they looked like they were dive bombing you hehe:D
SittingFox
3 Mar 2007Wow! Quite a moment! :eyes: