GavinM
Improving user
Hi, I'm working out here and have no literature with me on the birdlife and the google is very patchy on this part of the world.
Hunting on the airstrip a couple of days ago, and above a strip of trees yesterday a large (buzzard, small eagle, large harrier) sized bird was hunting.
Fingered wings, converse shape to spread to tail feathers, patchy light grey/black colouring on wings and back. Hunting just above tree height, focusing along an area then making a large arc and doing the same thing starting about 100 yards back. Gliding while hunting, slow wingbeats while arcing. Hunting with the sun at it's back.
Saw it from above while landing and in silhouette from the ground, so no further details.
Is it possible for anyone to give any ideas what it might be, and what I might look out for in any future observations?
Thanks as always.
Hunting on the airstrip a couple of days ago, and above a strip of trees yesterday a large (buzzard, small eagle, large harrier) sized bird was hunting.
Fingered wings, converse shape to spread to tail feathers, patchy light grey/black colouring on wings and back. Hunting just above tree height, focusing along an area then making a large arc and doing the same thing starting about 100 yards back. Gliding while hunting, slow wingbeats while arcing. Hunting with the sun at it's back.
Saw it from above while landing and in silhouette from the ground, so no further details.
Is it possible for anyone to give any ideas what it might be, and what I might look out for in any future observations?
Thanks as always.