The Breeding Season

As from now until the end of the breeding season birds of a sensitive nature will be omitted from this blog due to a small percentage of undesirables who take their pleasure from egg collecting, nest destroying and the killing and trapping of birds.
Reports of non breeding birds moving through the area will still be published. BS
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Sunday, April 3, 2011

Osprey comparison

Heres a photo taken from a book which is near enough the same as my photo below other than the light underside.
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Posted by Brian Sumner . at 11:44 AM

3 comments:

DJSutcliffe said...

I err on the side of Osprey Bri. I think the late evening sunshine will make the underside in the shade look darker than it actually is. Wing profile and the arching does not look quite right for Buzzard and the bill looks more like Osprey than Buzzard. Still not 100% but what a good day for Ospreys moving yeaterday! One that got away but still you did well to get a photo off.

April 3, 2011 9:42 PM
DJSutcliffe said...

Afterthought!!! When Ospreys migrate on good sunny days with thermals (like yesterday)then like the one I got over Hyde near Manchester yesterday it thermalled really high until it was only a speck in the sky, then after gaining height it drifted of at speed NW without any wing movement. The wing shape does change shape when drifting (rather than active flight)and wonder if you caught the bird on a 'drift' (or was it flapping)?

April 3, 2011 9:50 PM
Brian Sumner said...

The bird was flapping doing the long slow deep flaps, 3 then a glide typical to Osprey. Definately not a Buzzard and DCB has had the photo on his program and it shows much lighter on the underside, as you say ,it was probably a trick of the light.
All this happened in less than a minute hence the poor photo.

April 4, 2011 7:46 PM

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