A return visit to Ashdown Forest, with Andy Jordan, where the Short-toed Eagle was still being seen.
Strangely much the same pattern repeated itself. We waited in the car park, and the bird was reported from the other area!!! Typical. We waited for quite a while, before deciding to go to the other car park. We stopped a couple of times on the way there, keeping our eyes on the skies. Then i picked the bird up, flying over a ridge, but it was returning to the original car park, so we did too. Only to be told it flew right over, and into the valley......missed it again.
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| Stonechat (Juvenile) |
We spent the next maybe 4-5 hours just waiting, in the valley for the Eagle. But, not a sniff!!! The Stonechats were still playing, and gave us something to look at and photograph.
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| Stonechat (Juvenile) |
Many people walked past us and asked "what are you looking for?", then suddenly while i was explaining about the Eagle to a couple, Andy said, "you might wanna get on this mate!" I did, it was a Honey Buzzard.....the light wasn't great on the bird, but it was close enough at one stage to get some half decent shots.....Sadly we never got to see the Eagle again.
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| Honey Buzzard |
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| Honey Buzzard |
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