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Sunday 3rd October 2010, 09:32
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Is it just me or do non-birders see rare birds you haven't seen?
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Honey Buzzard in Bristol?
Hi, this is my first post! Yay!
Anyway, I'm only a teenager, but on the 13th of August, in Bristol(more sort of wood/field area, not in the city centre) at about 6 in the morning, I saw a raptor. My first inpression was a BUZZARD! BUT NOT A COMMON! It had more sort of rectanglish longer tail than common buzzards.... But I only saw it gliding for about 2 seconds and the light was poor so I did not get anymore details.... Was it a honey buzzard? But not many books say that you can find them in Bristol, and THEY ARE NOT COMMON BIRDS ANYWHERE! What do you think? If it was one, it would mark my 122th british bird....  |
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Sunday 3rd October 2010, 10:28
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Young Blackpool Birder
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Welcome to Birdforum
 and great to see another young birder such as myselfYou can't be sure what it was from the little description you have given but if a longer rectangular tail was the only stranger feature then it is most likely to have been just a Common Buzzard at a slightly strange angle so looked different. And since you are a young birder you might be interested in the young birders thread where you can get to know the rest of us on birdforum. http://www.birdforum.net/showthread....45989&page=194 Jonny
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