My wife saw a large raptor (on the wing) on Friday, at very close range. We are very familiar with buzzards and red kites, and it definitely wasn't either of those. We see them every day. It is described as substantially larger than a buzzard, dark brown or black, and the tail was a distinctive fan-shape as compared with the wedge-shaped buzzard and the forked red-kite. I showed her a picture of a black kite, and she ruled that out immediately as "wrong tail".
The sighting was over mixed field & woodland in rural north Essex, south Suffolk.
Any ideas?
The sighting was over mixed field & woodland in rural north Essex, south Suffolk.
Any ideas?