biggs682
Touch it up and ride it
- Location
- Northamptonshire
thanks for that i forgot about trying to id it
Your day's wildlife
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Dave 123
Legendary Member
- Location
- Cambridgeshire alps
It's a buzzard @potsy .
Tail is flat, not forked
Wing shape and pattern is more buzzard than kite
Bill shape of a buzzard
So it's a buzzard.
potsy
Rambler
- Location
- My Armchair
The resident expert at work says the same, I don't mind which it was, still glad to have seen one
Cubist
Still wavin'
- Location
- Ovver 'thill
Dave 123
Legendary Member
- Location
- Cambridgeshire alps
I knew I'd be starting buzzardgate!
gbb
Legendary Member
- Location
- Peterborough
[QUOTE 4787774, member: 9609"]it's not a buzzard.[/QUOTE]
It's one of those that needed a little more time looking at and equally of each of those you can never be sure, photo is too distant, its tail is not flared as you often see with buzzards, front of the wings are bent forward, again, you dont generally see that, a buzzards wings are often outstretched.
And yet, look very carefully at the chest, you'll need to zoom right in, a buzzard has a light coloured crescent patch on its chest and I think you can JUST JUST make it out if you look really carefully.
The general attitude of the bird in the photo didn't make me think buzzard..but...maybe it wasn't soaring but powering along, hence the slightly different body language.
If I had a quid for every bird I saw that I saw but came away not entirely sure what it really was...too distant, fleeting glimpse, etc etc
potsy
Rambler
- Location
- My Armchair
Only other pics I got were these, it was a fair way away and the pics are quite heavily cropped but they may help...
Cock
nickyboy
Norven Mankey
- Location
- You want hills? We got hills
Another seagull interaction today.....
I'd done a longish ride to Llandudno and decided to treat myself to a few beers for the train journey home. Four pack in an Asda plastic bag. Waiting at Llandudno Junction station and I needed the loo. So l left the bike and the bag (containing the beers) outside.
While having a waz I heard a right commotion outside. Finished up and walked out to find a Herring Gull attacking the bag of beers. Obviously they loiter around the platforms waiting for just such an opportunity. The bag was shredded, thankfully the beers were still intact
I'd done a longish ride to Llandudno and decided to treat myself to a few beers for the train journey home. Four pack in an Asda plastic bag. Waiting at Llandudno Junction station and I needed the loo. So l left the bike and the bag (containing the beers) outside.
While having a waz I heard a right commotion outside. Finished up and walked out to find a Herring Gull attacking the bag of beers. Obviously they loiter around the platforms waiting for just such an opportunity. The bag was shredded, thankfully the beers were still intact
annedonnelly
Girl from the North Country
- Location
- Blyth, Northumberland
annedonnelly
Girl from the North Country
- Location
- Blyth, Northumberland
First fledgling sparrows in the garden yesterday.
biggs682
Touch it up and ride it
- Location
- Northamptonshire
Moo cow's seen on my morning ride .
nickyboy
Norven Mankey
- Location
- You want hills? We got hills
But was the bike OK?
Bike fine
Gull must have been very disappointed to have ripped open the bag, only to be confronted by four cans of beer
