eagle golden
Well-known member
As the weather was good we decided we would have a none birding day over to Filey on the East coast, after a walk round the town, we went for a great fish & chip lunch, brilliant, after we went for a walk down to the promenade and headed for the lifeboat station, as we looked above the station a bird caught our eyes, it was slowly circling with the odd wing beat, from the distance we thought a Kite, then peregrine but as we got nearer, we both said its a Goshawk, sure enough it was doing a pre courting flight over the wood,it gained height then we lost it, about 15 minutes later we were walking up the hill towards town when three men passed, as they were all wearing bino's I asked if they had seen anything, I then told them about our sighting, at first they sort of shrugged and said oh you mean a Sparrowhawk,I then told them we did know the difference, after a few minutes talking I think they believed us, I told them about the Honey Buzzard we saw last year along with a couple of lifers for us both on Samphire hoe near Dover, Black redstart and Adonis Blue, I hope they spot this as I said I would post the pictures for them, sorry about the Honey picture, I was testing a new lens so not very good, but you can clearly see the distinct pattern on the under wing.Was nice meeting you all that's what birding is all about.
